Jens joined Immatics in April 2007 and heads the Bioinformatics Department which contributes to Immatics’ preclinical and clinical research by providing expertise in data and analytics. He is a part of the Discovery Unit leadership team at Immatics, shaping research and innovation.
Jens introduced quantitative immunopeptidomics to XPRESIDENT® a decade ago. Since then, he and his team have continuously extended Immatics' immunoinformatics platform XCUBE™ with cutting-edge methods from computational mass-spectrometry and next-generation sequencing while facilitating ongoing data growth and value generation using data engineering and data science.
Jens is an inventor on many patents and co-authored publications in the cancer immunology field in prestigious peer-reviewed journals including Nature, Lancet Oncology and Immunological Reviews. He studied computer science (Bioinformatics) at the University of Tuebingen, Germany.