Wasim Aftab Computational Biologist & Research Software Engineer

Wasim Aftab, PhD

Computational Biologist & Research Software Engineer

I develop reproducible computational methods and research software for complex biomedical data—from multi-omics and spatial biology to medical imaging and knowledge-grounded AI.

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  • Multi-omics
  • Spatial biology
  • Medical imaging
  • Research software
Portrait of Wasim Aftab
Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research, LMU Klinikum

Approach

From biological question to reproducible result

My work spans transcriptomics, single-cell and spatial omics, proteomics and multimodal MRI. At LMU Munich and LMU Klinikum, I have developed statistical methods, reproducible workflows and usable scientific applications, including ImShot for spatial proteomics, WeiseEule for biomedical evidence retrieval, and current methods for cell-type attribution and MRI segmentation.

I enjoy working across the full process: shaping biological questions with collaborators, designing rigorous analyses, building maintainable software for Linux and HPC environments, and translating computational results into clear biological conclusions.

Selected work

Methods built for real research questions

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Medical imaging

SiderUNet

Active-learning MRI segmentation with a reproducible 3D nnU-Net pipeline.

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02

Single-cell & proteomics

HASA

Replicate-aware cell-type attribution of bulk proteomic signals.

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03

Spatial proteomics

ImShot

Published open-source software for in-situ protein identification.

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04

Biomedical information retrieval

WeiseEule

Published evidence retrieval for knowledge-grounded biomedical question answering.

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