Laleh Haghverdi

Laleh Haghverdi is an Iranian physicist who won the 2017 Erwin Schrödinger Prize for her PhD work.
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Laleh Haghverdi studied physics in Iran before she moved to Germany for her graduate studies. In 2017 Haghverdi, who was a PhD student at Helmholtz Zentrum München, won the Erwin Schrödinger Prize together with her PhD supervisors, Prof. Fabian Theis (mathematician), Prof. Timm Shröder (‌biologist) and Prof. Carsten Marr (physicist) for the design and development of new solutions and algorithms in the study of stem cells in the process of cell differentiation dynamics. She also received the Helmholtz Association Doktorandenpreis for her Ph.D. thesis "Geometric Diffusions for Reconstruction of Cell Differentiation Dynamics". In 2018, as a postdoctoral fellow in Wolfgang Huber's group at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, she was awarded the Research Prize by the Peter and Traudl Engelhorn-Stiftung for her contributions to new computational tools for analysing single-cell transcriptomics data.