Sadegh Marzban

Applied Postdoctoral Fellow. Sadegh Marzban recently completed his Ph.D. at the University of Szeged in Szeged, Hungary. His doctoral research focused on Agent-Based Modeling in Cancer and Viral Dynamics, and he successfully defended his thesis in March 2023. Prior to his Ph.D., Sadegh earned his MSc degree in Biomedical Engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT) in Tehran, Iran. Sadegh’s primary research interests lie in understanding the role of spatial structure and evolutionary dynamics in cancer. His Ph.D. work centered on the development of a Hybrid Automata Library bridging the fields of oncology and virology. As a postdoctoral researcher at Moffitt Cancer Center, he uses agent-based modeling and artificial life frameworks to study spatial competition in the tumor microenvironment, with a focus on head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) and renal cell carcinoma. Also, he investigates the evolutionary dynamics of clonal hematopoiesis (CH), aiming to quantify the progression and estimate driver mutation fitness using stochastic and deterministic models to improve CH risk stratification and enhance early detection strategies for hematologic malignancies.