Denis Zaccarin, PhD

Denis Zaccarin occupied various R&D leadership positions at Pacbio from 2004 to 2024. He initially led the engineering team through the development of the RS sequencer, and then became VP Semiconductor Integrated Devices, leading the team responsible for the development of the family of consumables used in the Sequel and Sequel II product lines. He was promoted to Senior Vice President Research and Development in 2020, responsible for leading the R&D teams for the long-read and the short-read sequencing product offerings. 

Prior to joining Pacbio, he held various engineering and leadership positions in the telecom industry at companies such as Bell-Northern Research, Nortel, ONI Systems and Ciena. Denis Zaccarin holds a BSc engineering (1987), MSc engineering (1989) from Laval University and PhD in electrical engineering, Optics (1993) from the University of Ottawa.