Hamed Bahmani

Hamed Bahmani is a research scientist and entrepreneur in digital health and neurotechnology based in Berlin, Germany. He currently serves as a visiting researcher and project leader at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany, and is affiliated with the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience (BCCN). He maintains active memberships in the Vision Science Society (VSS), The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), Society for Neuroscience (SfN), International Brain Research Organization (IBRO), International Myopia Institute (IMI), and serves as German Chair of the Neuromarketing Science and Business Association (NMSBA).

His educational background includes:

• Double degree in electrical and biomedical engineering
• Doctoral degree in neurosciences from the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics

Dr. Bahmani's research centers on the physiology of cognitive processes, with specialized focus on neural correlates of higher visual functions including visual perception and attention. He pioneered groundbreaking work on neural encoding through his Volkswagen Foundation-funded project "Uploading data to the brain," which demonstrates real-time transfer of navigational knowledge in rodents using multi-electrode recording and microstimulation. His interdisciplinary methodology integrates neuroscience, engineering, and digital health to explore perceptual organization mechanisms and brain-computer interface applications, particularly investigating how synchronized neural activity in primary visual cortex (V1) carries perceptual information during binocular flash suppression.

He has secured competitive research funding from the Volkswagen Foundation (€87,000 for his neural encoding project), Max Planck Institute, and Federal Ministry of Education and Research. As Founder and CEO of Dopavision GmbH, he leads a neurotechnology venture developing digital health solutions, building upon his prior role as Head of Research at Berlin's Flying Health Incubator and postdoctoral fellowship at ZEISS Vision Science Lab, University Hospital Tübingen.