Morteza Hajihosseini received his Ph.D. in Epidemiology with a concentration in the microbiome and spatial single-cell data analysis from the University of Alberta. He completed his MSc in biostatistics at Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Iran. Prior to joining Stanford, Morteza collaborated with the WHO office of NCDs as a biostatistics and epidemiology consultant working on data from the STEPS program, writing R packages and shiny apps for WHO physical activity and cardiovascular risk assessment tools. He worked as an intern at Applied Pharmaceutical Innovation (API) company at the University of Alberta, collaborating on various projects related to the pharmaceutical industry. Morteza is interested in cancer epidemiology and survival studies focusing on cancer progression models and (spatial) gene expression analyses on cancers.