Morten Sommer is the co-Founder of several biotech companies specialized within the fields of drug development, industrial biotech and microbiome research.

Morten is also a Professor and Scientific Director at the Technical University of Denmark with a lab of more than 20 Ph.D.s and Post-Doctorial researchers, working with microbial foods and and the human microbiome.

Morten is a member of the board in Novonesis, Clinical-Microbiomics, SNIPR biome and UTILITY therapeutics.

Morten holds a M.Sc. in Physics from University of Copenhagen and a Ph.D. in Biophysics from Harvard University from the laboratory of Professor George Church.