Parisa Zakavi
Monash University Facility Fellow
Ms Parisa Zakavi graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering from Monash University in 2009. Currently, she is the Senior Technical Officer at Monash Biomedical Imaging (MBI) and has been a core MBI team member since 2015. She manages MBI’s clinical laboratories and is also responsible for training the new clinical users of the platform and providing hardware and software-based technical support to them. Her work at MBI has further included the integration of electrical stimulation with simultaneous TMS-fMRI as well as developing the codebase for a novel online database system for imaging platforms.
She is the project manager for the “Mobile MRI Project” at NIF’s MBI node.
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