Bjoern Peters

Bjoern Peters is an Assistant Professor in the Vaccine Discovery Division. Dr. Peters' research focus is on the analysis of immunological information using statistical and computational methods, with a particular interest in modeling the recognition of immune epitopes. In 2000, Dr. Peters received his Diploma from the University of Hamburg in Germany, for a thesis in Laser Physics and Quantum Optics. Dr. Peters then undertook graduate work at the Humboldt University in Berlin, where he became interested in applying quantitative methods commonly used in physics to immunological questions. He earned his PhD in Theoretical Biophysics in 2003 with summa cum laude, writing his thesis on modeling the MHC class I antigen processing and presentation pathway. In 2004, Dr. Peters came to LIAI for a postdoctoral training position in Dr. Sette's lab. From the start, he was heavily involved in the Immune Epitope Database project (http://www.immuneepitope.org), and became its Co-PI in charge of bioinformatics in 2005. Between 2006 and 2007 he was a Research Scientist, before being appointed Assistant Professor at LIAI at the start of 2008.