Shahabeddin Vahdat (PI), Assistant Professor
  Shahab joined the Department of Applied Physiology and Kinesiology at the University of Florida (UF) in 2019 as an Assistant Professor. Before starting at UF, he was a postdoctoral scholar in the Departments of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, and Neurosurgery at Stanford University, where he studied neurotreatment and pathophysiology of ischemic stroke in rodent models. His earlier postdoctoral fellowship was at University of Montreal, focused on of spinal cord functional neuroimaging and electrophysiology in humans. He received his PhD degree in the field of human motor neuroscience from McGill University, Canada, in 2012. He obtained his MSc and BSc degrees in Biomedical and Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology and University of Tehran.

His areas of research include neuroplasticty in motor learning and stroke recovery, with a particular focus on spinal cord circuits using advanced neuroimaging and neurostimulation techniques.

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