Education
Amiry-Moghaddam completed his medical studies in 1996 at the University of Oslo, and later obtained a Doctor of Philosophy at the Center for Neuroscience and Molecular Biology in that university.
human rights activist neuroscientist
Amiry-Moghaddam completed his medical studies in 1996 at the University of Oslo, and later obtained a Doctor of Philosophy at the Center for Neuroscience and Molecular Biology in that university.
Amiry-Moghaddam spent his first few years in the city of Kerman about 1000 kilometers south-east of Tehran in Iran. He arrived in Norway as a refugee of minor age, via Pakistan in 1985. Amiry-Moghaddam spent one year as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School in 2006.
In 2013, Amiry-Moghaddam was selected by an independent panel as one of the 10 "brightest minds" in Norway.
The list was published in the Norwegian newspaper VG. Amiry-Moghaddam is well known as a defender of human rights. Today, he works as a Professor in Medicine and head of the Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience at the University of Oslo.
Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.