Postdoctoral Associate
University of Florida
Mojdeh Faraji is a systems neuroscientist with a diverse background. She earned her PhD from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2018 under the mentorship of Eberhard Voit, where she focused on systems biology and mathematical modeling of dynamical systems. She then did a post-doctoral fellowship with Bita Moghaddam at Oregon Health & Science University, where she used rat models to investigate age differences in strategies used to support different forms of learning, using a reinforcement learning approach. She then moved to University of Florida to work with Jennifer Bizon and Barry Setlow, where she has led multiple projects focused on behavioral and neural mechanisms of cost-benefit decision making. Her current research is focused on the long-term effects of reproductive experience on cognition and aging. She employs optogenetic techniques to decipher the temporally-specific role of corticolimbic networks in executive functions.