Farhad Ghavami is the Chief Scientific Officer of agrigenomics at Eurofins Scientific Inc. with more than 15 years’ experience working on plant molecular genetics, plant genomics, transcriptomics, quantitative genetics and molecular breeding. Prior to his current position, Ghavami managed the molecular breeding and genomics technology department for Eurofins BioDiagnostics Inc. Additionally; he has served as a research assistant professor at North Dakota State University, and a senior research associate at the University of Minnesota. He has published more than 25 papers in peer reviewed scientific journals, three book chapters and more than 40 abstracts in different conferences.