Ardalan Aarabi received his B.Sc. in electrical engineering (electronics) from Shiraz University (Iran) in 1995 and his M.Sc. in biomedical engineering (bioelectrics) from the Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST) in 1999. He obtained his Ph.D. in neuroscience from the University of Picardy Jules Verne (UPJV, France) in 2007. From 2008 to 2012, he was a research associate at the University of Manitoba (Manitoba, Canada), the University of Minnesota (Minnesota, USA) and the University of Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania, USA). He is currently an associate professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Picardy Jules Verne. His interests lie in medical signal and image processing, computational modeling of brain dynamics and functional and structural connectivity analysis of brain networks in children and adults.