Dr. Jasper obtained a diploma in biochemistry in 1999 from the University of Tübingen in Germany, and he received his PhD in 2002 from the University of Heidelberg and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, where he studied transcriptional regulation of developmental processes in Drosophila. He was appointed research assistant professor at the University of Rochester Medical Center in 2003 and became assistant professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Rochester in 2005, where he was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 2010. He moved to the Buck Institute in July 2012 and served as its chief scientific officer from 2014 to 2017. In 2017, he was appointed staff scientist at Genentech, Inc.