About us

About us

It is our vision that everyone can become aware of the connections between health and lifestyle to better understand what makes a life well-lived. It is our conviction that metabolic phenotyping is key to preventing disease, maintaining well-being and improving the quality of life.

With a pioneering spirit and game-changing thinking, biocrates delivers excellent solutions and paves the way for individual health and well-being. 

About Us

As of 2025, our company has become part of Biognosys Group. Biognosys Group delivers high-performance, robust solutions across proteomics, metabolomics, and lipidomics — driving innovation at the forefront of multiomics. Building on the combined strengths of PreOmics, Biognosys, and biocrates, Biognosys Group integrates industry-leading consumables, software, instruments, and CRO services to make advanced mass spectrometry workflows seamless, scalable, and accessible to every laboratory.

The Biognosys Group maintains a vendor-neutral strategy, ensuring open and flexible collaboration across the scientific community and broad compatibility of its solutions across the major mass spectrometry platforms.

Designed for agility, Biognosys Group technologies can operate independently or within a unified ecosystem, supported by flexible business models and a strong commitment to partnership. The Biognosys Group is an affiliate of Bruker.

Who we are?

biocrates is the global leader in mass spectrometry-based quantitative metabolite analysis, with kits and assays covering over 1,000+ metabolites from more than 40 metabolite classes. Our platform combines innovative technology for sample preparation, metabolite identification, and data analysis.

The use of quantitative, standardized, and quality-controlled metabolomics methods guarantees robust and reproducible results that are the cornerstones of all clinical research.

From just a few microliters of sample material, we can uncover the entire phenotype of an individual and answer a host of questions about systems biology.

biocrates management team

Alice Limonciel

Alice Limonciel, Ph.D.

Sebastian Gottfried

Sebastian Gottfried, Ph.D.

​Alice connects biocrates with the ambitions of the scientific community. She is your contact person for scientific collaborations and works to maintain biocrates as an essential partner in cutting edge applications of metabolomics in biomedical research.

Over the last decade, Alice has been a passionate advocate for omics within the scientific community. She is the author of The STORY Principle, her book on how to reap the benefit of metabolomics. She is the host of The Metabolomist, the biocrates podcast where she explores the latest developments in metabolomics research. Alice holds a PhD in Molecular Biology from Medizinische Universität Innsbruck and completed postdoctoral research there and at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

​Sebastian develops the biocrates brand. He is your contact person if you seek to make metabolomics your own to further extend the reach and impact of metabolomics in applied markets. He oversees biocrates’ marketing and customer experience operations.

Prior to joining biocrates, Sebastian worked as a consultant in the pharma industry and mass spectrometry sector. Since 2019, he has worked passionately to raise the profile of metabolomics technology within the scientific community. Sebastian is a trained biochemist with a PhD in Neuroscience from Ruhr University in Bochum.

Make metabolomics accessible

It is our mission to make metabolomics accessible to facilitate breakthroughs in biomedical research.

With our pioneering phenotyping products and services, we help scientists and researchers gather new insights about disease prevention and personalized health.

Four core values guide all that we do at biocrates

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biocrates life sciences gmbh
Eduard-Bodem-Gasse 8
6020 Innsbruck | AUSTRIA
Phone +43 512 579823
Fax +43 512 579823-329

biocrates inc.
26895 Aliso Creek Rd Ste B-426
Aliso Viejo, CA 92656-5301
Phone +1 774 424 8150
Operating hours: Mo – Fr | 9 am – 7 pm (EST)