Shima Rezaei Rashnoodi

Shima Rezaei Rashnoodi is a Senior Researcher and R&D Lecturer at the Academy for AI, Games & Media, specializing in Virtual Reality (VR), participatory design, and spatial perceptions. Her work focuses on socially engaged architecture, diaspora studies, and immersive technologies' applications in storytelling and education. She has co-led projects like ARise (focusing on virtual humans and alcohol use disorder) and CRAFT: your own audience (targeting young audiences through online gaming).

• Education: Not explicitly stated in text.
• Research Interests: VR/XR development, volumetric capturing, migrant spaces, and inclusive design in immersive media.

Her recent research explores VR's role in mental health therapy (e.g., Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy) and enhancing music events via augmented reality. She actively collaborates in interdisciplinary projects, including IMPACT: Immersive Media for Platforms and VIS: engaging youth with news through virtual humans.

Notable activities include organizing the 10th XR Metaverse Conference 2025 and presenting on Latin American migrant women’s virtual realities. Her work bridges architecture, technology, and social sciences to address contemporary issues like displacement and identity.