Curriculum Vitae
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
Awarded magna cum laude. Thesis: Modeling Cell Plasticity at the Invasive Edge to Control Glioblastoma Recurrence. Supervised by Prof. Axel Voigt and Prof. Haralampos Hatzikirou, in the IMC group of Prof. Andreas Deutsch. Defended July 2025.
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2015 – 2018
MSc, Biomedical Engineering (Biomechanics)
Tabriz University of Technology, Iran
Thesis: simulation of drug delivery in liver cancer and normal tissue, accounting for its microvasculature.
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2009 – 2015
BSc, Mechanical Engineering
Shahrood University of Technology · Heat and fluid engineering
Thesis: simulation of two-dimensional viscous fingering in porous media.
Experience
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Nov 2025 – present
Postdoctoral Researcher in Bioinformatics
Department of Internal Medicine III · Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus Dresden / TU Dresden · Full-time
- Integrate large-scale UK Biobank multi-omics data — proteomics, metabolomics, genomics — with clinical variables
- Develop predictive models for disease progression across obesity, prediabetes, type 2 diabetes and MASLD
- Combine machine learning with mechanistic modelling for interpretable predictions
- Investigate molecular signatures and pathways underlying metabolic and liver disease
- Analyse risk factors for major complications — cardiovascular events, nephropathy, infections, cirrhosis
- Developed an application to digitise the group's in-house biobank data and ease its analysis
- Collaborate with clinicians and interdisciplinary teams to support translational research
- Maintain reproducible, ethical and FAIR analysis pipelines
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Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
Research Assistant, DataMedAssist group
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
Skills & affiliations
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
Data science & machine learning
- Python
- R
- scikit-learn
- TensorFlow
- NumPy / SciPy / pandas
- Deep learning
- Survival analysis
- Bayesian inference
- Biostatistics
- Big data
Biomedical domain
- Proteomics & omics analysis
- Bioinformatics
- Systems biology
- Radiomics & image analysis
- UK Biobank
- Agent-based modelling
- Uncertainty quantification
AI engineering & tooling
- LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic)
- Model Context Protocol
- Agent orchestration
- Retrieval & summarisation
- Git
- CI / GitHub Actions
- Linux / HPC
- SQL
- Node / Next.js
- Research software engineering
Simulation & engineering
- MATLAB
- COMSOL Multiphysics
- ANSYS
- Maple
- C++
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 · Talk
IRTG 3019: MEDIS retreat
Universitätsspital Zürich & ETH Zürich
Glucose levels and infection risk below the clinical diabetes range.
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Jul 2024 · Talk
ECMTB 2024
University of Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo
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Jun 2024 · Talk
Workshop on Computational Models in Biology & Medicine
CRTD, Dresden
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Mar 2024 · Invited
Institute of Medical Informatics & Biometry
Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden
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Apr 2023 · Poster
Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionsbiologie
Plön
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Nov 2022 · Poster
e:Med Meeting on Systems Medicine
Heidelberg
Service & recognition
Peer review
I review for:
- Nature Communications Medicine
- npj Systems Biology and Applications
- Scientific Reports
- Metabolism: Clinical and Experimental
- Frontiers in Oncology
- Frontiers in Medicine
- PLOS One
- PLOS Complex Systems
- PLOS Soft Matter
- Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
- Computers in Biology and Medicine
- Physics of Fluids
Memberships
- ESMTB
- European Society of Mathematical Biology
- SMB
- Society of Mathematical Biology
Honours & awards
- PhD scholarship, ERACoSysMed / BMBF, Germany
- Doctorate awarded magna cum laude, TU Dresden, 2025
- Honoured multidisciplinary master’s thesis
- Best paper award, 3rd Iranian Conference on Heat and Mass Transfer (ICHMT), 2017
- Top 4% of more than 350,000 candidates, national university entrance examination
- Full scholarship throughout undergraduate studies
Teaching
Supervisor, seminar in mathematical biology — Mathematics of innovative cancer therapies, TU Dresden, summer semester 2023.
Get in touch
Have data and a question that needs answering?
I work with researchers, clinicians, health-tech teams and bioinformaticians at the interface of biology, data science and personalised medicine — from a one-hour sanity check on a study design to a full modelling collaboration.
Details
- pejman.shojaee@tu-dresden.de
- ORCID
- 0000-0003-3298-3315
- Based in
- Dresden, Germany
- Languages
- English (C1) · German (B2) · Persian (native)