Jan Voges studied electrical engineering at Leibniz University Hannover, majoring in communications engineering. He received his Dipl.-Ing. degree from Leibniz University Hannover in 2015. After graduation, he joined the Institute for Information Processing at Leibniz University Hannover as a research assistant, where he pioneered the compression and standardization of genomics data. In 2018, he worked as a visiting scientist at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he contributed to a project to automate and accelerate the analysis of DNA sequencing data at Mayo Clinic. In 2022, he received his Dr.-Ing. degree — passed with distinction — from Leibniz University Hannover for his work on Compression of DNA Sequencing Data. Since 2022, he is leader of the Genomic Data Science group at Institute for Information Processing / L3S at Leibniz University Hannover. His research focuses on machine learning, bioinformatics and computational biology. He has a special interest in international standardization, proposal writing, project management, IP generation and software engineering.

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