Shadi MORADKHANI

Born on 11 July 1988 – Single – Iranian

Tel: +98-912 735 25 31; E-mail: [email protected], [email protected]

Ph.D. Candidate in Cognitive Neurosciences

Education

09/2018 - present Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience University of Tabriz, Iran

2011 M.Sc. in Physics [09/2009-10/2011] Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Iran GPA: 17,97/20 – Score of thesis : 19,75/20

2007 B.Sc. in Physics [09/2003–09/2007] Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran GPA: 14,38/20

2002 Pre-university Diploma in Mathematics and Physics [06/2002] Home schooling, Tehran, Iran GPA: 15,50/20

2001 High School Diploma in Mathematics and Physics [06/2001] Home schooling, Tehran, Iran GPA : 17,21/20

Honors

2018 Ranked 9th in the national Ph.D. entrance exams of Iranian universities in Cognitive Neuroscience and admitted to the University of Tabriz

2011 Ranked 3rd among 35 M.Sc. graduates in Physics at Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Iran

2009 A top ranking in the national M.Sc. entrance exams of Iranian universities in Physics and admitted to the Amirkabir University of Technology (Polytechnic of Tehran)

2007 Graduation from B.Sc. in Physics from Kharazmi University at the age of 19

2003 Admitted in B.Sc. of Physics at Kharazmi University in the national entrance exams of Iranian universities at the age of 14

2001-2002 Obtaining high school diploma and Iranian pre-university year diploma at the age of 12 and 13 (instead of the usual 17 and 18)

Working Experiences

02/2017 – 04/2020 Head of R&D Department Aria Pak Razi (biomedical products importation company) Studies on the quality of biomedical products; technical communications; customer training

03/2013 – 07/2014 Research Assistant Houpaa (house for designing intellectual and board games, and for publishing books) Studies and design of board games and intellectual games; research on the roles of different areas of the brain (such as the cerebral cortex, the limbic system and the hippocampus) in intellectual games; scientific

publication and communication

2014 - 2016 Research Assistant UNESCO Chair on water reuse at the University of Tehran Research work on a water treatment by wind energy topic, within the framework of a project entitled: "Simultaneous production of electricity and desalinated water using wind turbines as renewable energies", supervised by Professor Mohammad Hossein SARRAFZADEH

2003 - 2012 Teacher of physics and mathematics Private courses and several educational institutes, Tehran

Interest Fields

Research: - Functional imaging in cognitive neuroscience, brain networks, perception of time, clinical approaches to cognitive neuroscience, statistical mechanics, complex systems

Training: - Cognitive neuroscience, brain imaging methods in cognitive neuroscience, statistical mechanics, mathematical physics, quantum mechanics

Skills

Laboratory skills: - Quantitative Electroencephalography (QEEG) - Event-Related Potentials (ERP) - Psychophysics

Computational - EEG-based Neuroimaging technique and software: NeuroGuide, EEGLAB skills: - Linear and nonlinear signal processing analysis: Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), Graph theory - Programming: MATLAB - Statistical skills: Origin, SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) - Simulation software: Comsol Multiphysics

Publications and Conferences

3 published articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals, 6 articles in national and international conferences with proceedings and 17 participations in national conferences and workshops in cognitive neuroscience, clinical neuroscience, physics and neurophysics (cf. list of publications and conferences)

Language Skills

French B2 Level, advanced intermediate (CECR) at TCF in 2014 compréhension orale: 423/699 (B2) ; maîtrise des structures de la langue : 500/699 (C1) ; compréhension écrite : 437/699 (B2) ; résultat global : 447/699

English Score 75/100 at MSRT English Language Test in 2019 and C1 Level, autonomous (CECR) at IELTS in 2017 listening : 7/9 ; reading : 7/9 ; writing : 6/9 ; speaking : 7/9 ; overall band score : 7/9

Persian Mother tongue

Arabic Basic; first foreign language in middle and high school

CV updated on 22 September 2020

Shadi MORADKHANI

List of recent publications and conferences

Published articles in peer-reviewed journals

2018 Ghaderi, A. H., Moradkhani, S., Haghighatfard, A., Akrami, F., Khayyer, Z., & Balcı, F. (2018). Time estimation and beta segregation: An EEG study and graph theoretical approach. PLoS ONE, 13(4).

2017 Haghighatfard, A., Andalib, S., Amini Faskhodi, M., Sadeghi, S., Ghaderi, A. H., Moradkhani, S., et al. (2017). Gene expression study of mitochondrial complex I in schizophrenia and paranoid personality disorder. World Journal of Biological Psychiatry, 19(sup3), S133–S146.

Articles in International Conferences with Proceedings

2018 “Genetic bases of time estimation”: Arvin Haghighatfard, Shadi Moradkhani, 7th Basic and Clinical Neuroscience Congress, 12-14 Dec. 2018, Tehran, Iran.

2017 “Estimation of long duration is related to EEG beta power”: Amir Hossein Ghaderi, Shadi Moradkhani, Arvin Haghighatfard, Fatemeh Akrami, Mohammad Ali Nazari, 6th Basic and Clinical Neuroscience Congress, 20-22 Dec. 2017, Tehran, Iran.

2017 “Genetic variants in memory and learning genes are associated with overestimation of time”: Arvin Haghighatfard, Amir Hossein Ghaderi, Shadi Moradkhani, Fatemeh Akrami, Sode Soleymani, 6th Basic and Clinical Neuroscience Congress, 20-22 Dec. 2017, Tehran, Iran.

Participation in conferences, seminars, trainings and workshops

2019 Workshop on “Evidence-Based Measures to Support Diagnosis and Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders: From Raw data to QEEG Report”, hold by HBimed AG and National Brain Mapping Lab, Tehran

2019 Workshop on “Brain Signal Processing and its Application in Computational Neuroscience”, National Brain Mapping Lab, Tehran

2019 Workshop on Neurofeedback and QEEG, 16 hours education, National Brain Mapping Lab, Tehran

2018 7th Basic and Clinical Neuroscience Congress, Razi Convention Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran

2017 6th Basic and Clinical Neuroscience Congress, Razi Convention Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran

2017 Workshop on Basics of Neuroscience, 25 hours education, Lab for Dynamics of Cortical Circuits, Neuroscience Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran

2016 Workshop on Neurotherapy based on QEEG, 20 hours education, hold by Hamedan Science and Technology Park and Aria Pak Razi co., Hamedan

2016 Workshop on Transcranial direct current stimulation, 12 hours education, hold by Hamedan Science and Technology Park and Aria Pak Razi co., Hamedan

2016 5th Basic and Clinical Neuroscience Congress, Razi Convention Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran

Before 2016

1 published article in peer-reviewed scientific journals, 3 articles in international conferences with proceedings and 8 participations in international conferences (list available upon request)

List updated on 22 September 2020