I am a postdoc neuroscientist in the Optical Imaging Lab. I am interested in understanding how neuronal networks process sensory information, and combine them with internal knowledge and experiences to form perception of sensory events, and how such processes may guide decision and action. To this aim the activity of a large population of neurons are recorded during a behavioral test using wide-field imaging and electrophysiology, while pharmacological and optogenetic methods are used for manipulation of activity.
During my PhD, I investigated the effect of serotonin on the visual processing; how it controls the gain of the external sensory input and internally driven information; their interaction under anesthetized and awake states. Prior to that, I did my undergraduate and master's studies in Biomedical Engineering- Bioelectrics at AmirKabir University of Technology.