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Azadeh Yazdan-Shahmorad joined the University of Washington in Fall 2017 as a Washington Research Foundation Innovation Associate Professor in Neuroengineering. She specializes in developing novel tools and technologies to interrogate and understand the nervous system, with long-term goals of using these advancements for personalized neurorehabilitation to help restore functions in individuals with neurological and psychiatric disorders. Yazdan-Shahmorad earned her Bachelor’s and Master's degrees in Biomedical Engineering from Tehran Polytechnic University and the University of Tehran, Iran, respectively, and completed her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan in 2011. She has received numerous prestigious awards including fellowships from the American Heart Association and the IEEE Brain Grand Challenges Young Investigator Award, and her research has been recognized as a hot topic in 2016 by the Society for Neuroscience. She was honored with the Excellence in Mentorship Award from the Bioengineering Department in 2019 and her work remains influential in the field of neuroengineering, particularly in sensorimotor plasticity.
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