Magnus Nordborg is a biologist specialising in population genetics.
[1] He is the scientific director of the Gregor Mendel Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, located at the Vienna Biocenter.
[2] In 2003, Nordborg received the Sloan Research Fellowship.
[3] He was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2010.
[4] In 2015, he was elected a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization.