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Afsaneh M. Nejad <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Current position(s)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

10\/2025-Present            Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science (IMADA), SDU, Denmark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Previous positions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

08\/2024-09\/2025          Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science (IMADA), SDU, Denmark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12\/2021-08\/2024          Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health, Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Biodemography (EBB), SDU, Denmark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Education<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 PhD in Computational Biology, Department of Public Health, EBB, SDU, Denmark<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2017                             Master of Applied Mathematics, IMADA, SDU, Denmark<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grants and awards<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

100,000 DKK<\/strong>: SDU Climate Cluster fast track grant, where I am collaborator<\/em>. My role: Together with two other researchers from Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute and Green Technology on a proof-of-concept using AI to map hospital material flows and waste data to drive circular healthcare. Project title: Bridging Data Gaps: AI for Circular Healthcare Waste Management. Project period: 11\/2025-10\/2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

40,000 DKK<\/strong>: My personal part from a DFF project 1, where I am collaborator.<\/em> My role: Statistical advisor for a Postdoc and a PhD student; Project title: Structural knee joint changes following meniscal surgery compared with exercise in young adults \u2013 Does treatment type impact later osteoarthritis risk? (The DREAM trial), Project period: 07\/2023-07\/2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contributions to the research community<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chaired session at leading conference:<\/strong> Integrative Data Analysis in Systems Biology, at IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), Madrid, Spain (2018).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I peer-reviewed for:<\/strong> BMC Medicine; European Journal of Epidemiology; Frontiers in Immunology; Clinical Epigenetics; Scientific reports; Human Genomics; Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences; BMC Medical Genomics; Journal of the Royal Society Interface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selected<\/strong> Invited talk:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Association of cancer with frailty at old age in the longitudinal study of aging, International Society of Geriatric Oncology<\/em>, Montreal, Canada, October 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Generalized correlation coefficient for model-free analysis of Omics data<\/em>,<\/strong> Online seminar, Technical University of Munich, Germany, Dec 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Network-based analysis of omics data<\/em>,<\/strong> Seminar on Big Data in Systems and Network Medicine at SDU,Denmark, Nov 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weighted gene co-expression network analysis of microarray mRNA expression profiling in response to electroacupuncture<\/em>, International Conference BIBM, Madrid, Spain, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Supervision and Teaching<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Supervision (currently\/total)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2019-Present: master students (4\/20), mentoring PhD student (1\/4), co-supervising PhD student (1), mentoring Postdoc (1)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

01\/2021-08\/2024: Biostatistical supervision service in EBB at SDU: Provided computational, methodological and interpretational consultations in research projects for PhD students and researchers in health Science (consultant) (approx. 185 hours)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current teaching:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Master course since 2025: Data Mining and Machine Learning (DM868\/DM870\/DS804\/DSK804)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Master course since 2024: Introduction to Bioinformatics (DM847\/MM552)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Previous teaching:  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Master course 2022-2023: Introduction to Basic Biostatistical Concepts and Regression (DS812)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Master course 2022-2024: General Regression Models (survival and longitudinal data) (DS818) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Master course 2023: Evidensbaseret l\u00e6gemiddelanvendelse og biostatistik \u2013 Biostatistik<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 PhD course 2021-2024: Biostatistics II (Lecturer and course director)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 PhD course 2022: Mixed models in Health Science<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Master course 2023-2024: Applied Biostatistics (Invited lecturer)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 PhD course 2022-2023: Advanced Biostatistical methods in Health Sciences: a bootcamp course <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 PhD course 2018: Design and analysis of epigenome-wide association studies (EWAS)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

   (Invited lecturer. Giving lecture about Weighted gene correlation network analysis)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 PhD course 2017: Analysis of microarray gene expression data (Teaching assistant)  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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