Curriculum Vitae
Postdoctoral researcher in systems medicine and mathematical biology, based in Dresden. Background in biomedical and mechanical engineering.
Education
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2021 – 2025
PhD, Mathematics
Technische Universität Dresden · CIDS & ZIH
Thesis: Modeling Cell Plasticity at the Invasive Edge to Control Glioblastoma Recurrence. Supervised by Prof. Haralampos Hatzikirou, in the IMC group of Prof. Andreas Deutsch. Defended July 2025.
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2015 – 2018
MSc, Biomedical Engineering (Biomechanics)
Sahand University of Technology, Tabriz
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2009 – 2015
BSc, Mechanical Engineering
Shahrood University of Technology
Experience
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Nov 2025 – present
Postdoctoral Researcher / Research Fellow
Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus Dresden · Full-time
- Analyse immunometabolomic data to map interactions along type 2 diabetes trajectories
- Build workflows for cross-sectional and longitudinal biomedical data
- Study immune cell and proteomic profiles linked to metabolic health
- Apply machine learning and statistical methods to large-scale cohorts including the UK Biobank
- Maintain reproducible, ethical and FAIR analysis pipelines
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Oct 2024 – Aug 2025
Research Assistant
Fakultät Informatik / Mathematik, HTW Dresden · Part-time
- Developed an AI framework to predict tumour spheroid status from radiomic features
- Predicted the point at which spheroids escape treatment control
- Built image-processing pipelines robust to strongly non-linear spheroid behaviour
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Mar 2021 – Jul 2025
Doctoral Researcher
Technische Universität Dresden · CIDS & ZIH
- Developed and refined mathematical models of glioma–macrophage interaction
- Ran virtual patient simulations as in-silico clinical trials
- Performed uncertainty and global sensitivity analysis on the proposed models
- Explored Bayesian approaches combining mechanistic models with machine learning
- Analysed multimodal radio-omics data to predict time to relapse
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Mar 2018 – Mar 2021
Independent researcher, translator and reviewer
Self-employed
- Built expertise in data science, statistical analysis and machine learning
- Published research on drug delivery and hyperthermia cancer treatment
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Sep 2016 – Mar 2018
Research Assistant, Advanced Biofluids Laboratory
Sahand University of Technology
- Developed mathematical models of drug distribution in solid tumours
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Jun 2017 – Sep 2017
Research Collaborator, Biological Engineering Laboratory
University of Tehran
- Patient-specific modelling of cerebral aneurysm haemodynamics
Affiliations
- DZD
- German Center for Diabetes Research
- IRTG 3019
- MEDIS — international research training group, Dresden & Zürich
- CIDS
- Center for Interdisciplinary Digital Sciences, TU Dresden
Technical skills
Core
- Python
- R
- MATLAB
- scikit-learn
- TensorFlow
- NumPy / SciPy / pandas
- Bioinformatics
- Biostatistics
- Proteomics & omics analysis
- Deep learning
- Big data
- Systems biology
Also
- COMSOL Multiphysics
- Maple
- Git
- C++
- SQL
- ANSYS
- Linux / HPC
Languages
- Persian
- Native
- English
- Full professional proficiency · IELTS 7.0 (C1)
- German
- Professional working proficiency · Goethe-Zertifikat B2 (2024)
Talks & posters
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2026 · Contributed talk
IRTG 3019: MEDIS retreat
Universitätsspital Zürich & ETH Zürich
Glucose levels and infection risk below the clinical diabetes range.
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July 2024 · Contributed talk
ECMTB 2024
University of Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo
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June 2024 · Contributed talk
Workshop on Computational Models in Biology & Medicine
CRTD, Dresden
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March 2024 · Invited talk
Institute of Medical Informatics & Biometry
Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden
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April 2023 · Poster
Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionsbiologie
Plön
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November 2022 · Poster
e:Med Meeting on Systems Medicine
Heidelberg
Contact
- pejman.shojaee@tu-dresden.de
- ORCID
- 0000-0003-3298-3315
- Location
- Dresden, Saxony, Germany