Shikhar Gupta

Shikhar Gupta is a Bioinformatics Build Fellow at Open Avenues Foundation, where he works with students leading projects in the field of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology.

Shikhar is a Systems Integration and R&D Engineer at Volta Labs Inc. where he works on integrating genomic applications on the Volta Labs fluidics platform and develops new automated biochemical workflows.

Before Volta Labs and Open Avenues, he spent 5 years working as a Scientific Researcher at Institute for Soft Matter Physics in Leipzig, Germany understanding the mechanism of bacterial immunity. He holds a degree in Biophysics.

A fun fact about Shikhar: I like to train for long-distance runs, enjoy reading about enlightenment philosophy and innovation and love dancing to Bollywood beats 🙂