CV

Biography

Date of Birth: 16 Aug 1995
Phone: +41 79 423 80 38
Email: payam.sadeghi-shabestari@vision.ee.ethz.ch
payam.sadeghishabestari@{uzh, usz}.ch
Website: payamsash.github.io

Neuroscience Center Zurich, University of Zurich & ETH Zurich, Switzerland — Oct 2022
PhD Thesis: Advancing Neurofeedback in Tinnitus (ANT)
Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland — Nov 2020
MSc Thesis: Improving spike sorting performance of bursting neurons
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy — Feb 2019
MSc in Biomedical Engineering (GPA: 104/110)
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Polytechnic University of Tehran, Iran — Sep 2013
BSc in Biomedical Engineering (GPA: 3.8/4)

SNSF PhD Mobility Grant — 22.000 CHF
Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital (6 months)
GRC Travel Grant UZH — 4.900 CHF
Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital (6 months)
Best Poster Award at ARCHES 2025
Audiological Research Cores in Europe (ARCHES) Conference
Research Award from STL 2026 — 2.000 CHF
Swiss Tinnitus League

Academic guest at Biomedical Image Computing Group, Switzerland — Nov 2025 - Jan 2027
Dept. of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, ETH zurich
Affiliated to research at Karolinska Institute, Sweden — May 2023 - Jan 2024
Dept. of Physiology and Pharmacology
University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland — Oct 2022
Dept. of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery

Closing the loop towards precision medicine in Tinnitus (UKBB data) (repository)
Identification and validation of a biomarker for tinnitus (TIDE consortium) (repository)
A normative modeling framework for identifying diffusive EEG biomarkers in tinnitus (repository)

Philip Aruliah, Psychology master student @ UZH
Impact of motor-imagery based neurofeedback on speech production
Louis Larcher, Neuro-X master student @ EPFL
Multi dimensional feedback stimuli in neurofeedback
Journal of Psychophysiology
Neuromodulation Journal