Dr. Amir Jahanian Najafabadi

• Academic Positions

- Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer in Neuroscience at the Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Bielefeld University, February 2023–present
- Researcher in Interdisciplinary Neuroscience (DFG project 402779631), Constructor University Bremen, February 2023–2025
- Resident Associate – Professional support, Student Life and Wellbeing Department, Constructor University Bremen, February 2020–July 2023
- Research Associate in Neuroscience at the Department of Psychology and Methods, Constructor University Bremen, 2019–2023 (DFG project 402779631)
- Adjunct lecturer in Psychology and Neuropsychology at Touro University Berlin, 2022–2025 (courses: PSYG432 Neuropsychology, PSYG 201 Developmental Psychology, PSYG 351 Biological Psychology, PSYG 101 Introduction to Psychology)
- Teaching Assistant at Constructor University Bremen, Methods in Neuroscience, Lifespan Neuroscience, Advanced Human Neuroscience Laboratory, Neurobiology, 2020–2023.
- Researcher at the Developmental Neuroscience Laboratory at NTNU, Norway, 2018–2019.

• Visiting Researcher

- JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship in Neuroscience: Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Hiroshima University (2026–2027)
- Sensorimotor Lab, Radboud University, Netherlands (2022)
- Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany (2019)
- Developmental Neuroscience Laboratory (NTNU), Norway (2018–2019)
- Psychophysiology Laboratory, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal (2017–2018)
- Addiction Biology Lab, Institute for Research and Innovation in Health – University of Porto (2017–2018)
- Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience Department, Helsinki University, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland (2017)
- Department of Neuroanatomy, King’s College London, London, UK (2017)
- Department of Neuropsychology, Utrecht University, Netherlands (2016)
- Department of Neurology and Neuroanatomy, LMU, Munich, Germany (2016)

• Current Projects

1. Time perception in healthy ageing: how real and virtual active tool use affects time perception depending on the space
2. Plasticity of the minimal self across the lifespan: how virtual and real-life changes in sensorimotor experiences shape the perception of body ownership, sense of agency and location (in collaboration with Constructor University Bremen and the University of Bremen)
3. Long-term motor experiences and their effect on the plasticity of spatial and body representations in golfers and racket players
4. Early detection and personalised treatment for neuropsychiatric, neurological and neurodevelopmental disorders
5. Effects of simulated gravitational conditions on time perception and tool embodiment in extended realities