Joan Camuñas-Soler

Joan Camuñas-Soler

Assistant Professor

University of Gothenburg

Dr. Camuñas-Soler joined Sahlgrenska Academy and the Institute of Biomedicine as an Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics for Translational Medicine in 2022.

Camuñas-Soler received postdoctoral training in the lab of Stephen Quake at Stanford University where he developed new tools in single-cell genomics and non-invasive diagnostics to investigate metabolic disorders and pregnancy complications.

In addition to his academic work, at Stanford he was involved in the founding of Mirvie, a molecular diagnostics start-up company based in South San Francisco. Prior to that, he obtained his M.Sc. in Biophysics from the Royal Institute of Technology, a PhD in Physics from the University of Barcelona, and he was a visiting scholar at Carlos Bustamante lab at UC Berkeley.

His work has been published in journals such as Science, Nature, Cell Metabolism, Nature Physics, and PNAS, and it has also been recognized with several awards, patents, and prestigious establishment grants.

Interests
  • Single-cell Genomics
  • Biophysics
  • Precision Medicine
Education
  • Postdoc, 2019

    Stanford University

  • PhD in Physics, 2015

    Universitat de Barcelona