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Jan-Bernd Hövener (born 1980 in Münster) is a German physicist and professor at Kiel University in the field of imaging techniques and biomedical technology. The university lecturer and scientist is best known for his work on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and quantum mechanical hyperpolarisation of nuclear spins.

He is a member of the Emmy Noether Programme of the German Research Foundation and a member of the board of the Cluster of Excellence Precision Medicine in Chronic Inflammation at Kiel University.

Jan-Bernd Hövener studied physics at the universities of Münster, Nice and Heidelberg. After his diploma thesis at the German Cancer Research Centre in Heidelberg in the field of medical physics and stays at New York University, he conducted research at the Huntington Medical Research Institute and the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, USA. He completed his doctorate in 2008 at the Faculty of Astronomy and Physics in Heidelberg on the subject of hyperpolarised magnetic resonance imaging. Hövener then joined Jürgen Klaus Hennig's research group at the University Medical Centre Freiburg. In Freiburg, he was accepted into the DFG's 4th Academy of Excellence for Young Scientists in Medical Technology; he was a member of the German Consortium for Translational Cancer Research and deputy head of the MasterOnline programme ‘Technical Medicine’. From 2014 to 2022, he headed the Emmy Noether Group Metabolic and Molecular MRI. Hövener completed his habilitation in ‘Experimental Radiology’ at the University of Freiburg in 2016. Since June 2017, he has been Professor of Translational Magnetic Resonance Imaging[9] at the Faculty of Medicine at Kiel University and Head of the Biomedical Imaging Section of the Department of Radiology and Neuroradiology at the University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH), Kiel Campus, and Head of the Molecular Imaging North Competence Centre (MOIN CC), the state's competence centre for preclinical imaging and core facility at Kiel University.

Jan-Bernd Hövener conducts research in the field of medical physics on new imaging methods, in particular magnetic resonance imaging and hyperpolarisation. His research interests include hyperpolarisation, applied quantum technology, sequence development and dental MRI. He invented special coils for the MRI of teeth and, together with his colleagues, discovered continuous hyperpolarisation with para-hydrogen, without a polariser and PHIP-RASER. In teaching, Hövener deals with topics such as MRI, X-ray and CT imaging as well as the interaction of ionising radiation with biological tissue.

Hövener ist oder war an verschiedenen Verbundprojekten der EU und DFG (Exzellenzcluster PMI EXC 2167, europol-itn, miTarget FOR 5042, TRR 287 BULK reaction, GRK 2154 materials4brain) beteiligt, und er ist im scientific advisory board von MgSAFE. Von 2016 bis 2017 war er Präsident der Deutschen Sektion der Internationalen Gesellschaft für Magnetresonanz in der Medizin (ISMRM DS), 2016 und 2019 Präsident der Jahrestagung der ISMRM DS.