Shane Bowen's Biography

Shane Bowen, Director, Scientific Research; Dept. of Research & Technology Development, Illumina

Shane Bowen received his B.S. in Physics (Honors) and Mathematics from the University of San Francisco in 1998. In 2000 he completed his M.S. in Applied Physics and in 2005 his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, both from the University of California, San Diego. Following two years working within the flat panel display industry as a System Scientist for a Joint Venture between Cymer Lasers (now ASML) and Carl Zeiss SMT, he joined illumina in 2007. Over the last decade, Shane has progressed from being an individual contributor working on both genotyping and sequencing platforms to now serving as the lead of the Nanofabrication division within the department of Research and Technology Development. The work that Shane’s group focuses on today is the development of chemical patterning processes at the foundation of illumina’s flowcell technology as well as development of sensors to be used in future platforms for genetic analysis. Shane was awarded illumina’s innovation award in 2016 for the development of the patterned flowcelll technology at the foundation of the $1000 genome. At this time, Shane has more than fifteen published and granted patents and more than thirty pending publications.