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Sama Ahmed

Neuroscientist | omahmed@uw.edu | Website

Osama Ahmed is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology and a Weill Neurohub term assistant professor at the University of Washington, Seattle. He completed his Ph.D. training in neuroscience at UCSF and his postdoctoral training at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute. His research interests span systems neuroscience, cognitive psychology, evolutionary biology, and genetics. Currently, he is excited to delve deeper into the neurobiology of multitasking as a way to study how nervous systems generate and constrain different behaviors.

Areas of Interest:
CognitionComputational NeuroscienceMotor SystemsNeural Basis of BehaviorSensory Systems