Chris Songsomboon
Research Assistant
Discipline of Environmental Sciences
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- Research AssistantDiscipline of Environmental Sciences
BIO
Dr. Chris Songsomboon is an experienced bioinformatician and trained plant breeder with over seven years of research leadership in academia and industry across Australia, Thailand, and the United States. Currently a Research Fellow in Environmental Data Analysis at the Climate Change Cluster (C3), University of Technology Sydney, Chris specialises in multi-omics bioinformatics, de-novo genome assembly, and environmental genomics. His career includes significant roles in plant breeding, genomic structural variation analysis, transcriptome, metabolome, methylome, and microbiome.
UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY APPOINTMENTS
- Research Fellow in Environmental Data AnalystUniversity of Technology Sydney, Climate Change Cluster, Sydney, Australia8 Jan 2023 - present
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Evolutionary DevelopmentThe University of Sydney, School of Life and Environment Science, Sydney, Australia1 Sep 2021 - 31 Dec 2023
- Postdoctoral Research FellowUniversity of North Carolina at Charlotte, Computation and Genomic, Charlotte, United States1 Sep 2018 - 31 Dec 2020
NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Associate Breeder IIEast West Seed, Breeding, Bangkok, Thailand1 Jan 2021 - 30 Jun 2021
DEGREES
- PhD in Plant BreedingCornell University, Ithaca, United States15 Aug 2013 - 18 Aug 2018
- Bachelor of Science, BiologySilpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand2012
LANGUAGES
- EnglishCan read, write, speak, understand and peer review
- ThaiCan read, write, speak, understand and peer review
PROFILE TYPE
- Academic
AVAILABILITY
- Collaborative projects
- Join a web conference as a panellist or speaker
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
- Media enquiries
- Mentoring (long-term)