Scopus ID: 21935063900

Education:

2011 Doctoral defense. (Thesis title: " Investigation on growth and product formation by Bacillus subtilis using a metabolic model")

2006 – 2011 Doctoral studies at Iran University of Science and Technology, School of Chemical Engineering

2004 – 2006 Master studies at Iran University of Science and Technology, School of Chemical Engineering

2000 – 2004 Bachelor studies at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Faculty of Engineering, Chemical Engineering Group

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Work experience:

Since 2024  – Visiting Lead Researcher at Rīga Stradiņš University, Bioinformatics Group

2021 – 2023 Researcher at the University of Latvia, Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology, Computational Systems Biology Group

Since 2012 – Academic staff at Tarbiat Modares University, Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Department of Biotechnology

2011-2012 Postdoctoral researcher at Pasteur Institute of Iran, Drug Design and Bioinformatics Unit

2008-2010 Researcher at Research Institute of Petroleum Industry, Tehran, Iran

2008-2009 Lecturer at Mahshahr Azad University, Mahshahr, Iran

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Projects:

2024 – 2027 Productive catalytic living materials: combining 3D biobased fibrillar membranes with synthetic microbial consortia to produce chemicals (LivMat), M-ERA.Net funded by the Latvian Council of Science

2024 – 2026 Systems biology based analysis of mitochondrial metabolism as a driver of inflammation in cardiovascular disease development (SysMito), RSU consolidation project  

2021 – 2023 Genome scale metabolic modelling linked bioreactor control system (GenCon), funded by ERDF 

2020 – 2023 Sustainable Microbial Valorisation of Waste Lipids into Biosurfactants (Waste2Surf), ERDF funded project  

2014 – 2017 Inhibition of Cisplatin-resistant ovarian cancer growth using metabolic modeling, funded by INSF

Teaching activities:

Since 2012 professor at Tarbiat Modares University, Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Department of Biotechnology

Supervised doctoral students:

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2018 – 2025 Zahra Ghasemi Naraghi “Development of an optimal microbial consortium for electron generation enhancement of microbial fuel cell using systems metabolic engineering”

2018 – 2023 Reza Peighami Ganji “Regulation of Thioalkalivibrio versutus metabolism to optimize the desulfurization of biogas from natural gas”

2018 – 2023 Mohammad Amin Boojari “Increasing the productivity of recombinant human growth hormone in Pichia Pastoris by presenting a new feeding strategy to integrate the metabolic model and transcriptomics data”

2014 – 2019 Oveis Jamialahmadi “Application of genome-scale metabolic models in growth inhibition of hepatocellular carcinoma cells”

2014 – 2019 Mahsa Mekanik “Reconstruction of a genome-scale metabolic model to improve hydrogen production using green algae”

2014 – 2020 Narges Pedram “Reconstruction of a genome-scale metabolic model for human pathogen streptococcus pneumoniae”

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Language skills:

Persian – native

English – working professional

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