Jan O. Korbel (born 1975) is a German scientist working in the fields of human genetics, genomics and computational biology.
[1] He is a tenured principal investigator and Heading the Data Science Centre at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Heidelberg, Germany.
He is also a senior scientist in the Genome Biology Unit at the EMBL, is leading a bridging research division at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), and is a honorary professor ("Honorarprofessor") at Heidelberg University.
A particular focus of the Korbel group is on investigating a particular form of mutation, genomic structural variation, which includes deletions, inversions and more complex chromosomal rearrangements such as chromothripsis events that can occur in healthy individuals and in context of disease.
[4] He received several academic prizes, including: He is an elected member of Germany's National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina[9] (2015) and of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)[10] (2016).