Draft:Shahin Nasr

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Shahin Nasr (born 1977 in Tehran) is an Iranian-American neuroscientist specializing in visual neuroscience and high-resolution functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). He earned his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in biomedical engineering in 1999 and 2002, respectively. Nasr received his Ph.D. in cognitive neuroscience in 2009 from the Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), School of Cognitive Sciences, under the supervision of Prof. Hossein Esteky. Following his doctoral studies, he joined Prof. Roger Tootell’s lab at the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, as a postdoctoral fellow. Since 2018, he has been a faculty member at Harvard Medical School, where he currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Radiology.

Research and Contributions

Nasr's research is dedicated to unraveling the functional organization of the human visual cortex. In 2011, he and his colleagues published a groundbreaking study demonstrating the homology of scene-selective areas between humans and non-human primates . They later uncovered the sensitivity of human scene-selective areas to lower-level visual features such as orientation and rectilinearity , as well as their involvement in cognitive tasks . His studies also demonstrated the effects of disrupting corticostriatal loops on the function of these regions . In 2024, his team identified a previously unrecognized scene-selective area in the posterior intraparietal gyrus, which they named PIGS (Posterior Intraparietal Gyrus Scene-Selective Area) .

Nasr has also been a pioneer in applying high-resolution fMRI to study the mesoscale functional organization of the extrastriate cortex. His work provided the first in vivo evidence of thin and thick stripes in the human visual area V2 and existence of fine-scale processing channels within early visual areas . Additionally, he has contributed to understanding the differential effects of anisometropic versus strabismic amblyopia on mesoscale neuronal structures such as ocular dominance columns .

Awards and Recognition

In 2024, Nasr received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from President Joseph Biden .