About
Hi, I'm Mahdiye.
I'm a technical product manager and data & AI lead with more than 10 years of experience in data analysis, data science and hands-on experience as a cloud and data engineer with a foundation in biophysics. I'm drawn to science- and data-driven products, where understanding the domain makes the difference between something that ships and something that matters. I'm comfortable in settings where the science is complex, the users are experts, and a wrong assumption is costly.
I approach product work as a systems thinker. I break ambiguous problems down to their fundamentals, map how the pieces interact, and ground decisions in data and experimentation. I work as a translator between engineers, scientists, business leaders and compliance teams, turning technical depth into clear priorities everyone can act on. And I value the people behind the product, because the best results come from well-supported teams.
Where I'm heading: leading technical products that run on medical and health data, from software to measurement systems. Healthcare is my first focus, and the same craft applies wherever data has to be trusted.
Experience
- Jun 2023 — Present · Zürich
Data Scientist · Deputy to Line Manager
SIX Swiss Exchange
- Owning end-to-end delivery of revenue-generating analytics products, from business case and stakeholder alignment to go-live.
- Deputizing for the line manager in a FINMA-supervised environment: chairing stakeholder meetings, coordinating engineering and data teams, representing the department with senior leadership, and documenting decisions and actions.
- Architecting and leading an event-driven multi-agent system (PoC) that simulates market dynamics with LLM-based reasoning and deep learning agents, shipped through CI/CD.
- Leading and designing a medallion architecture on Databricks Unity Catalog, an automated reporting platform, and a bidirectional Databricks ↔ Cloudera integration across two platform migrations.
- Contributing to SAFe / SCRUM team ceremonies (retrospectives, sprint reviews, PI planning), onboarding new team members at all levels and mentoring junior colleagues.
- Apr 2022 — Jan 2023 · Zürich
Startup Liaison & Marketing Officer
Venture Foundation
- Finalized the analysis of 25 years of data on all past finalists of the startup competition to inform business decisions in the strategy reassessment.
- Automated several website features and recurring data analysis tasks using APIs.
- Led website redesign and relaunch, aligned to new brand and strategic positioning.
- Managed outreach campaigns and talent-pipeline development for the startup competition program: secured juries and mentors, and identified and contacted startups as potential participants, both online and at startup events.
- Oct 2016 — Dec 2021 · Zürich
Doctoral Researcher
ETH Zürich
- Managed multi-year research projects from hypothesis development through execution and publication. Supervised MSc and BSc students and directed thesis projects, providing technical mentorship and project oversight
- Designed and developed MATLAB pipelines for analysis of large-scale biophysical datasets, delivering reproducible research outcomes
- Authored and co-authored peer-reviewed publications in international journals and presented findings at scientific conferences
- Designed and developed experiments on the physical characterization of phase separated biomolecular condensates
- Nov 2015 — Jul 2016 · Dresden
Research Assistant
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG)
- Designed and established an aging measurement protocol for biomolecular condensates in vitro
- MATLAB-Based image processing, Fourier Transform analysis, Kymograph analysis; Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy (FCS) Measurements, Confocal Microscopy, Fluorescence Microscopy, Optical Trapping
Selected publications
- A solid beta-sheet structure is formed at the surface of FUS droplets during agingNature Chemical Biology · 2024
- Multivalency ensures persistence of a +TIP body at specialized microtubule endsNature Cell Biology · 2022
- Protein condensates as aging Maxwell fluidsScience · 2020
- Surface tensiometry of phase separated protein and polymer droplets by the sessile drop methodSoft Matter · 2020
- Salt-dependent rheology and surface tension of protein condensates using optical trapsPhysical Review Letters · 2018
Education
- Dr.Sc. BiophysicsETH Zürich2016 — 2021
- M.Sc. NanobiophysicsTU Dresden2013 — 2015
- B.Sc. Materials ScienceUniversity of Tehran2009 — 2013
Courses & training
- Technological Innovations and Sustainability TransitionsProf. Jochen Markard · D-MTEC, ETH Zürich2021
- Power and LeadershipProf. Petra Schmid · D-MTEC, ETH Zürich2020
- Lateral LeadershipEva Gottschewski · ETH Zürich2020
- Time ManagementSandra Bajus · ETH Zürich2020
Toolkit
Product & leadership
Data & AI
Platforms
Code
Languages
English (fluent) · Persian (native) · German (intermediate)