Nigel Mouncey

Dr. Mouncey has served as Director of the DOE Joint Genome Institute since 2017 and previously spent 20 years in Industrial Biotechnology at Roche, DSM and Dow on the discovery, development and commercialization of novel production organisms and fermentation processes. He has research expertise in secondary metabolites and synthetic biology and has successfully built integrated effective multi-disciplinary teams. Today, he is continuing to build and position JGI as a leading integrative genome science user facility. He is also the Deputy Leader of the National Microbiome Data Collaborative.