The importance of bacteria in both industrial and medical applications is expanding exponentially. SBT Instruments provides fast and accurate bacteria-counting equipment to facilitate the bacto-revolution.

Commercial success and pushing state-of-the-art technology to the market are the cornerstones of our company. To achieve these two things, we follow our core values (see below).

We are driven to improve society

We want to introduce a global technology leap within microbiology measurements. We work hard to make our solutions widely available and we take pride in helping our community when we can.

SBT is people

Our success is entirely dependent on the collective energy and well-being of all members of the team. We value trust and flexibility in the workplace, and encourage initiatives that increase happiness.

Successful customers are everything to us

We want our customers to love our products. We focus on making our customers wildly successful, and we will do everything we can to generate as many happy customers as possible.

Knowledge creates smarter solutions

Knowledge is key to pushing technological boundaries therefore we are knowledge hungry, driven, and sharing. We value the independent and collective pursuit of knowledge and we recognize great ideas when we see them.

Gustav Skands
CEO & Co-founder
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Gustav is the CEO of SBT. His focus is on the company achieving its vision to make bacteria measurements accessible and enable everyone to measure bacteria, everywhere. He holds a master’s degree from the Technical University of Denmark and has completed an executive education program at Harvard Business School.

Frederik Peter Aalund
CIO & Co-founder
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Frederik leads the software development at SBT. He designs the real-time bacteria detection algorithms used in SBT's products and regularly contributes to the open source community. Frederik holds a MSc in Mathematical Modelling and Computation from the Technical University of Denmark.

Anders H. Grauslund
COO
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Anders’ responsibilities are managing daily operations and the strategic execution within SBT. Additionally, he is responsible for various financial and legal aspects of firm operations. He brings his experience from FaunaPhotonics, Accelerace, and Ørsted. Anders holds an HD in Finance from CBS and an MSc in Biotechnology from The University of Copenhagen.

Leif Sudergaard
Head of Production
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Leif is responsible for the production in SBT. He brings international department and project management experience to the management team of SBT. Before joining SBT he worked in industries involving telecom, signal processing, nanotechnology, and logistics. Leif holds a M.Sc.E.E. from the Technical University of Denmark.

Peter Lüttge Jordal
Technical Product Manager

Peter is in charge of developing tailored sample pretreatment protocols prior to the actual bacterial measurements on the BactoBox. He has been hunting bacteria for over 10 years, mainly related to biotechnological exploitation of bacteria but also for microbiological troubleshooting in e.g. food and industrial production. Peter is a biotech engineer and holds a PhD degree in biomarkers from the University of Aarhus.

Thomas Gelsing Carlsen 
Business Development Manager

Thomas leads the sales at SBT. Additionally, he is responsible for customer support related to commercial activities. Thomas has more than 5 years of experience from sales and a scientific background in Microbiology with a PhD from the Department of Biomedicine at Aalborg University.

Caleb Ferguson
Technical Sales Specialist

Based out of Boston, Caleb supports our growing customer base across the USA. He has a background in sales and applications support, with an emphasis on streamlining the pharmaceutical biologics workflow. Caleb holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas in Austin.

Marcos González Díaz 
R&D Engineer

Marcos is part of the R&D team. He has been involved in research projects during his BSc Eng. in Telecommunications and is passionate about problem solving and bringing new ideas to the industry. Marcos holds a MSc degree in Space Technology at the Technical University of Denmark.

Jonatan Midtgaard
Software Developer

Jonatan is a software developer at SBT, involved in everything from the core algorithms to the user interface. He is passionate about developing efficient, high-performing software and bridging the gap between advanced technology and its users. Jonatan holds a PhD in Physics from Aarhus University.

Amer Bachir 
Production technician 

Amer is a part of the Production team in SBT Instruments. He brings twelve years of experience as a QC technician at FOSS and over ten years as an Electronic Technician at RFS. Amer is educated as an electronic technician at Technical Academy.

Chris Ernskov Douglas
QC Laboratory Technician

Chris is part of the Laboratory team. He primarily works with the quality control of BactoBox and our microfluidic flow-cells before they are shipped off to our customers, along with maintenance of our laboratory. Chris is a laboratory technician, educated at Zealand in Roskilde.

Dovile Sidlauskaite 
Laboratory Student Assistant

Dovile is a part of the Quality Control Laboratory. Her main role making sure that BactoBox and microfluidic flow-cells reach their customers in high quality by helping Chris, as well as other laboratory-related tasks.
She is currently studying MSc in Molecular Biology and Genetics at the University of Copenhagen. 

Rasmus Zarp Lintrup 
Core Tech Student Assistant

Rasmus is part of the R&D team. He is responsible for the fabrication of the microchips used in BactoBox and the process flow optimization.  
He is studying MSc. in Physics and Nanotechnology at the Technical University of Denmark.

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Would you like to request a demo, on-site trial, or do you just have a general question about BactoBox® and SBT Instruments' technology? Please get in touch via our quick contact form below, or, reach out directly to our CEO, Gustav.

Gustav Skands

CEO & Co-founder
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+45 2076 5773

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2730 Herlev
Copenhagen, Denmark
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