Affiliation: Aarhus University

Dr. Asad Jan studied clinical medicine and obtained his PhD in Neuroscience in 2010 from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Switzerland. From 2012 to 2017, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia, Canada. In late 2017, he joined Aarhus University in Denmark as an AIAS-Marie Curie Research Fellow and continued his independent research. Currently, Dr. Jan is an assistant professor and non-tenured research fellow at Aarhus University, where he receives independent external funding.

During these tenures, he has actively collaborated with international teams on mechanistic studies of neurodegenerative diseases, particularly Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. His work includes research on cellular and animal models, phenotype assessment, in-depth histopathological analyses of human and rodent post-mortem tissues, and advanced gene expression profiling using spatial transcriptomics. His complete list of published works can be found on ORCID (0000-0002-3636-0070).