Sina Majidian – Computational Genomics Research Lab

Dr. Sina Majidian is an incoming Assistant Professor and leads the Computational Genomics Research Lab in the Data Science and AI division of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. The department is joint between the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Computational Biology at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland (2021–2024 and 2026) in the Comparative Genomics Lab, led by Christophe Dessimoz and Natasha Glover. He also held a postdoctoral position in the Department of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University, USA, from 2024–2025, working with Ben Langmead. He was a research intern at the Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, with Fritz Sedlazeck. Dr. Majidian completed his PhD in Signal Processing at Iran University of Science & Technology in 2020 whose supervisor was Prof. Kahaei, accompanied by a research visit to the Bioinformatics Group in the Department of Plant Sciences, Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands, with Dick de Ridder (2018-2019). His research focuses on characterizing genome variation and evolution by developing interpretable and efficient methods in comparative pan-genomics.