Vahid Shahrezaei

Vahid Shahrezaei is a Professor of Biomathematics at Imperial College London's Department of Mathematics (Faculty of Natural Sciences). He holds affiliations with the Biomathematics Group, Centre for Synthetic Biology, and Mathematics in Medicine. His research focuses on Computational Molecular Systems Biology, studying cellular robustness under stochasticity and environmental noise using computational and analytical methods. Notable contributions include methods for single-cell RNA-sequencing analysis and simulation-based inference of biochemical networks.

Education: PhD in Physics from Simon Fraser University (Canada), BSc/MSc in Physics from Sharif University (Iran). Career highlights include a sabbatical at the Crick Institute (2023-2024) and roles such as Diversity Champion for the Faculty of Natural Sciences. Awards include the Imperial College President Medal for Research Supervision (2017). He has led interdisciplinary grants, including a Leverhulme-funded study on noise in gene expression with Samuel Marguerat.

• Research Interests: Stochastic modeling, gene expression dynamics, systems biology applications
• Key Projects: Development of bayNorm for single-cell data normalization, studies on mycobacterial cell size control
• Professional Roles: BBSRC expert panel member, co-organizer of systems biology conferences

His lab integrates mathematical modeling with experimental data, addressing questions in developmental biology, cancer metabolism, and microbial systems. Recent work includes agent-based modeling of environmental policy adoption and novel visualization techniques for multi-omics data.