| Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1971 Kerman, Iran |
| Occupation | neuroscientist |
| Known for | Human Rights activist, neuroscience |
| Home town | Oslo, Norway |
Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, possibly Amiri-Moghadam, (born 1971) is a Norwegian-Iranian neuroscientist and human rights advocate.
Amiry-Moghaddam spent his first few years in the city of Kerman about 1000 kilometers south-east of Tehran in Iran. He arrived in Norway as a refugee of minor age, via Pakistan in 1985.
Amiry-Moghaddam completed his medical studies in 1996 at the University of Oslo, and later obtained a PhD at the Center for Neuroscience and Molecular Biology [1] in that university. In 2004, he received the King's gold medal for the best medical doctorate at the University of Oslo. Amiry-Moghaddam has been a collaborator to Peter Agre, who received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2003. Amiry-Moghaddam spent one year as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School in 2006.
Amiry-Moghaddam was awarded the Anders Jahre medicine prize for young scientists in 2008,[2] He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.[3]
Amiry-Moghaddam is well known as a defender of human rights. He received the Norwegian Amnesty International's human rights prize in 2007 [4] for his work against the human rights violations in Iran.
Today he works as a group leader at the Center for Molecular Biology and Neuroscience, and head of the Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience at the University of Oslo. He is also co-founder and spokesperson for the NGO Iran Human Rights (http://iranhr.net)[5] which monitors the violations of human rights in Iran.