Nektarios Valous
computational scientist, journal editor, hobbyist photographer
About
I am working at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and the National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) Heidelberg. I am located at the Center for Quantitative Analysis of Molecular and Cellular Biosystems (Bioquant).
I am founding editor (link will be available shortly, following changes to the journal website) and executive editor of the open access peer-reviewed journal ImmunoInformatics (Elsevier). Editorial board member of Applied Sciences and AI in Medicine.
You can check my profile on: LinkedIn, Google Scholar, ResearchGate, ORCID, Scopus, and Web of Science.
I am a hobbyist photographer (also on Facebook and Instagram).
Recent publications
Harnessing lipid-driven immunometabolic pathways in omental metastases to enhance immunotherapy in patients with ovarian cancer, Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy.
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Computational workflows for natural and biomedical image processing based on hypercomplex algebras, Patterns.
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Confocal Raman microspectroscopy for spatially resolved tissue characterisation of disease-linked spectra-pathological signatures, Clinical and Translational Medicine.
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Novel computational workflows for natural and biomedical image processing based on hypercomplex algebras, arXiv.
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Python and MATLAB code
Isolation of a tumor neoantigen specific CD8+ TCR from a skin biopsy of a vaccination site, OncoImmunology.
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Supplemental material
Graph machine learning for integrated multi-omics analysis, British Journal of Cancer.
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Guest-editing of special issues
Digital Pathology and Computational Tissue Phenotyping as Clinical Endpoints in Gastrointestinal Oncology; Discover Oncology. Open for submission (deadline: 29.01.2027). Link
Application of Computer Vision in Biomedicine; Applied Sciences. Open for submission (deadline: 20.09.2026). Link
Deep Learning Applications in Image Analysis; Applied Sciences, 2026. Link
Hypercomplex Signal and Image Processing, Part 1; IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 41(2), 2024. Issue link · Editorial link
Hypercomplex Signal and Image Processing, Part 2; IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 41(3), 2024. Issue link · Editorial link
COVID-19 and Computational Immunology; ImmunoInformatics, 2022. Link
Forthcoming Conference presentations
Keynote speaker at the Empowering Novel Geometric Algebra for Graphics & Engineering (ENGAGE) 2026 Workshop, under the auspices of Computer Graphics International (CGI) 2026; London, UK.