Jens We?el is a trained model maker and graduated from the UDK Berlin with a degree in architecture. Parallel to his studies and afterwards, he worked at Monath + Menzel, Berlin, from 1993 to 2003.
In 2003, he taught architectural model making at the Muthesius University of Applied Sciences for Art and Design in Kiel, in the architecture department.
He set up model-making workshops and managed them at Hundertmark and Partner and Barkow Leibinger, where he was an employee and workshop manager for almost 20 years.
In 2021, he developed the ‘concept for a model-making workshop and teaching of the future at the FH;P’ and has been an academic staff member there since 2022, specialising in teaching in the field of model-making and heading the 3D lab.