CV
Biography
Date of Birth: 16 Aug 1995
Phone: +41 79 423 80 38
Email: psadeghi@ethz.ch
payam.sadeghishabestari@{uzh, usz}.ch
Website: payamsash.github.io
Education
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 neuronsDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy — Feb 2019
MSc in Biomedical Engineering (GPA: 106/110)Department of Biomedical Engineering, Polytechnic University of Tehran, Iran — Sep 2013
BSc in Biomedical Engineering (GPA: 3.8/4)
Awards and Grants
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
Academic Positions
Academic guest at Biomedical Image Computing Group, Switzerland — Nov 2025 - Jan 2027
Dept. of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, ETH zurichAffiliated to research at Karolinska Institute, Sweden — May 2023 - Jan 2024
Dept. of Physiology and PharmacologyUniversity Hospital Zurich, Switzerland — Oct 2022
Dept. of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery
Ongoing Projects
- Closing the loop towards precision medicine in Tinnitus (UKBB data)
- Identification and validation of a biomarker for tinnitus (TIDE consortium)
- Normative Gradient Deviations Reveal Individualized and Shared Brain Signatures of Tinnitus (Tinception)
Teaching
- Programming in Biology (Sep 2024)
- Biosignals and Engineering; Challenges in M/EEG Processing (Sep 2023)
- Introduction to Biomedical Engineering (Sep 2016)
- Electromagnetics (Sep 2015)
Supervision and Journal Revisions
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
