Joern Dengjel is a group leader at the Center for Biological Systems Analysis at the University of Freiburg. His research focuses on the description of spatio-temporal protein dynamics during autophagy, a cellular degradation pathway.

Joern Dengjel studied Biochemistry in Potsdam and Tuebingen, where he also completed his doctoral thesis in February 2005 at the Department of Immunology, Institute for Cell Biology. After one year at Immatics Biotechnologies, Tuebingen, working as a senior scientist in the Tumor Analytics group, he started a Postdoc at the Center of Experimental BioInformatics, University of Southern Denmark, Odense. For three years he worked on spatio-temporal protein dynamics using functional proteomics approaches. Since December 2008 he is heading a research group at the Center for Biological Systems Analysis, Freiburg.

He received several fellowships during his studies, such as a doctoral scholarship of the German Merit Foundation and an EMBO long-term fellowship.