Behanz Akbarian, PhD

Behnaz Akbarian is a biomedical engineer and research fellow whose work focuses on using neuroimaging to understand brain function and neurological disease. Born in Tehran, Iran, she earned her Master of Science degree from Iran University of Science and Technology and her PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Vanderbilt University, where she conducted her doctoral research in the Darby Lab under the mentorship of Dr. Ryan Darby.

Her research interests include biomedical signal and image processing, functional MRI, electrophysiology, pattern recognition, brain stimulation, and computational neuroscience. Her current research integrates structural and functional neuroimaging with behavioral assessments to investigate frontotemporal dementia, with the goal of identifying biomarkers for early detection and disease progression and understanding the neural mechanisms underlying behavioral symptoms.

For more information about her research and publications, visit her Google Scholar profile.