Mike Furness is Professional Customer Solutions Manager at QIAGEN Digital Insights EMEA, and has spent over 30 years working in genomics and bioinformatics, developing and applying new technologies to understanding disease, drug R&D and clinical diagnostics. He has previously worked for Life Technologies, Cancer Research UK, Pfizer, Incyte Genomics, DNAnexus, Congenica, and Lifebit, and was the Founder of TheFirstNuomics.

Dr. Tim Bonnert heads the Field Application Scientist team for QIAGEN Digital Insights in EMEA and APEC, providing scientific support and training to customers implementing QIAGEN’s secondary analysis and tertiary interpretation solutions. He is based in the UK and joined QIAGEN in 2011. He received his Ph.D. from University of Cambridge and has over 12 years of pharmaceutical research experience in molecular biology, bioinformatics, and biomarker discovery using a range of molecular profiling techniques.

My career has always had a strong focus on genetics starting with my PhD project and post-doctoral work at Warwick University. While I enjoyed research and focusing on a single project I also liked interacting with scientists of different disciplines, problem solving and discovering the best technical approach to solve a research question. At QIAGEN I am able to combine these interests. My job as a Clinical Application Specialist means I am responsible for supporting the clinical informatics product portfolio, helping scientists and clinicians choose the best software solutions for their application. A key area of my job is to provide technical training and support with a particular focus on clinical applications. I have always found clinical genetics a fascinating area to work in and prior to QIAGEN, I was a Product Manager at Oxford Gene Technology (OGT). I worked for 5 years developing the CytoSure range of microarrays and the microarray analysis software CytoSure Interpret which complemented OGT’s array portfolio for constitutional disorders, cancer cytogenetics, in-vitro diagnosis and molecular cytogenetics. I was also involved in developing OGT’s clinical next generation sequencing (NGS) products, software and services.I have always liked the challenges technical support and before joining OGT I worked for 8 years at Agilent Technologies as a Senior Application Specialist working with Agilent’s Life Science products. I provided technical support and training on software, NGS and microarray product lines and liked the combination of working both at the bench and carrying out data analysis. I have always found it is important to understand the complete workflow from sample preparation through to data analysis when trying to troubleshoot a technical problem. It is the broad range of applications that you come across which makes the role of an Application Specialist both interesting and challenging. I also like it that no two days are ever the same!

Georgios Stamoulis holds the position of QIAGEN Digital Insights Director of Global Product Management for Hereditary diseases. Dr. Georgios Stamoulis is a Molecular Geneticist by training and he holds a PhD in Human Genetics from the University of Geneva, and an MSc in Medical Genetics from university of Glasgow. Georgios has more than 12 years of experience in human genetics and genomic diagnostics & research and in product management of hereditary disease products with a focus on NGS interpretation tools. Before joining QIAGEN, Georgios served as the Global Product Manager of Hereditary diseases in SOPHiA Genetics. In 2016, he received the “Fellowship of Excellence for Young Investigators” from the European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG). He is also an author of multiple human genomics publications.