Morten Nielsen holds a position as Professor of Immunoinformatics and machine learning at the Department of Health Technology, Technical University of Denmark. He 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 immunoinformatics and a key inventor of several state-of-the-art methods for T and B cell epitope discovery including the NetMHC-suite currently used worldwide for rational epitope discovery. He has published more than 200 articles, books, and book chapters within the fields of immunology, immunoinformatics, computational  biology, data mining and machine learning.