Parnian Poursafa
Research Areas
- Relation of creativity, substance use and mental health
- Gene-environment interplay
- Causal modelling
- Molecular genetics
- Translational psychiatry
Vita
Academic Education
| Since 2025 | PhD candidate in Medical Science at Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Germany Karolinska Institutet, Sweden |
| 2022–2024 | MSc in Interdisciplinary Neuroscience, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany |
| 2017–2021 | BSc in Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Isfahan, Iran |
Academic Experience
2024 | Master Thesis on Environmental Risk Factors and Polygenic Scores in ADHD as Predictors of Disorder Severity at Translational Child Psychiatry, Frankfurt am Main |
2024 | Student assistant at Edinger Institute, Performing live cell imaging on organotypic slice cultures of the hippocampus |
2023 | Internship in Neurogenesis and Microglia Activation at Universitat Autonoma Barcelona |
| 2022 | Internship in Cognitive Neuroscience at Rademaker lab at the Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) |
Auszeichnungen & Stipendien
Stipendien und Preise
| 2024 | Graduation Scholarship from Goethe University Frankfurt to support the completion of studies |
| 2023 | Erasmus+ Scholarship for a research internship in Barcelona |