Leon Jessen
Head Of MS.c. (eng.) In Bioinformatics Education Programme
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
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Top SchoolLeon Jessen is an Associate Professor and Head of the MSc Bioinformatics programme with 11+ years of experience building machine learning-driven tools for computational immunology and translational bioinformatics. He leads a multidisciplinary research group focused on T-cell biology, immune repertoire profiling and single-cell multi-omics, and has a track record of turning novel models and reproducible, cloud-native pipelines into industry-relevant collaborations. Skilled in R-based software development and probabilistic/deep learning approaches, he supervises PhD and MSc projects and chairs initiatives that bridge academia and pharma. Leon combines curriculum design and talent development with hands-on method development, ensuring students are trained to meet biotech demands. Notably, he has driven high-impact efforts in TCR specificity prediction and founded a company (NordicDataLab) to operationalize data science in life sciences. Based in Copenhagen, he excels at communicating complex immunological and computational concepts to diverse stakeholders and scaling them into practical translational outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Technical University of DenmarkUpper Secondary School Leaving Examination, Emphasis on Mathematics, Chemistry and Physics, Upper Secondary School Leaving Examination, Emphasis on Mathematics, Chemistry and Physics at Kalundborg Gymnasium
English, Danish, German
Github Skills (33)
packaging10
installer10
pip10
quarto9
python9
tidyverse9
package-installer9
bioinformatics8
r8
r-package7
rstudio7
keras7
markov6
hidden6
tensorflow5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
r4bds/r4bds.github.io
Aug 2023 - Dec 2024
R for Bio Data Science Course Site
Contributions:14 PRs, 177 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
bioinformaticsdata-sciencequartorrstudio
leonjessen/PepTools
Nov 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:38 commits, 1 PR, 27 pushes in 3 months
r-packageimmunological-bioinformaticsbioinformaticsimmunoinformaticspeptide
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