Associate Professor
A. (Ahmed) Mahfouz
Introduction
I am an Associate Professor of at the Department of Human Genetics at the Leiden University Medical Center, and an affiliated faculty at TU Delft, Netherlands.
I am interested in understanding how genetic and environmental factors influence the molecular state of cells. My current research focuses on developing algorithms and machine learning methods for single-cell and spatial genomic data analysis, with particular emphasis on cell type identification, multi-modal data integration, and transcriptional regulation.
I grew up in Cairo, where I earned my bachelor’s in Systems and Biomedical Engineering from Cairo University in 2008, followed by a master's in Communication and Information Technology from Nile University in 2010. I earned my PhD in bioinformatics from the TU Delft, Netherlands, in 2016 followed by a postdoc at the Leiden Computational Biology Center before starting my own lab at Department of Human Genetics in 2019.
I am interested in understanding how genetic and environmental factors influence the molecular state of cells. My current research focuses on developing algorithms and machine learning methods for single-cell and spatial genomic data analysis, with particular emphasis on cell type identification, multi-modal data integration, and transcriptional regulation.
I grew up in Cairo, where I earned my bachelor’s in Systems and Biomedical Engineering from Cairo University in 2008, followed by a master's in Communication and Information Technology from Nile University in 2010. I earned my PhD in bioinformatics from the TU Delft, Netherlands, in 2016 followed by a postdoc at the Leiden Computational Biology Center before starting my own lab at Department of Human Genetics in 2019.
Scientific research
I received the BioSB Young Investigator Award in 2017 for the best systems biology and bioinformatics thesis in the Netherlands, and the CJ Kok Award in 2022, a mid-career research excellence award from the LUMC. I am also the founder and chair of the Single Cell Network Netherlands as well as the current chair of the Young Academy Leiden (YAL).
