Morten Nielsen PhD

Morten Nielsen holds a shared position as Professor of Bioinformatics at the Department of Systems Biology, at the Technical University of Denmark, and the Universidad Nacional de San Martin, Argentina. MN graduated with a master in physics from the University of Copenhagen. Obtained his PhD (also in physics) from the University of McGill, Canada. The core of Morten Nielsen’s research deals with the development of novel and advanced data-driven prediction methods for pattern recognition in biological systems. Morten Nielsen is a pioneer in the field of immunological bioinformatics and a key inventor of several state-of- the-art methods for T and B cell epitope discovery. He has been a partner in several large epitope discovery grants and has published numerous articles and book chapters within the fields of immunology, immunological bioinformatics and neural networks.