Jens Klinzing
Clinical Program Manager at Philips
Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolJens Klinzing is a Clinical Program Manager with 11 years of experience at the intersection of neuroscience, sleep research, and medical product development, currently leading clinical programs at Philips in Tübingen. He combines a PhD in Neuroscience with hands-on R&D and project leadership from academia to industry, having led clinical trials and Class IIa medical device projects as Head of Sleep Unit at Bitbrain. Jens brings practical engineering collaboration skills—supporting hardware/software teams and regulatory experts using agile methods—and a track record securing European funding and driving product strategy. An active contributor to the FieldTrip MATLAB toolbox, he has improved DICOM/NWB I/O, plotting, and noise estimation for MEG/EEG workflows, reflecting rare technical depth for a program manager. He’s passionate about translating sleep science into usable health solutions and often bridges detailed signal-processing issues with clinical trial delivery.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange Semester, Exchange Semester at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Neuroscience at University of TübingenBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Cognitive Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Cognitive Science at Universität Osnabrück
German, English, spanish (b2)
Github Skills (10)
file-processing10
file-handling10
debugging10
debug10
matlab10
file-access10
fileio10
neuroimaging10
plot9
analyse9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
fieldtrip/fieldtrip
Mar 2016 - Jun 2020
The MATLAB toolbox for MEG, EEG and iEEG analysis
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Bug Fixer
Back-end Developer & Bug FixerContributions:36 commits, 22 PRs, 77 comments in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jens primarily contributed to bug fixes and documentation updates within the MATLAB-based FieldTrip toolbox. Their commits addressed issues related to file input/output, particularly with DICOM and NWB formats. They also fixed bugs in existing functions, such as those related to string handling and handling specific variable configurations. Additionally, they worked on improving the plotting functionalities and enhancing the noise estimation within the codebase.
brainneurosciencetime-frequencyfieldtripieeg
medpsytuebingen/Matlab
Feb 2018 - Aug 2022
Matlab scripts commonly used in the Institute of Medical Psychology Tuebingen
Contributions:1 review, 22 PRs, 105 pushes in 4 years 6 months
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