Mohamed Ameen, PhD

Cognitive Neuroscientist | Sleep Scientist | Data Scientist | Pharmacist

Hey! I’m Mohamed —often Mo in Europe, or Mohamed S. Ameen on research papers. I’m currently a research scientist at The SIESTA Group and a postdoctoral fellow funded by The Austrian Science Fund (FWF). I did my PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at the Sleep Lab of the University of Salzburg with a focus on how the brain processes information, particularly during sleep.

I trained as a pharmacist in Egypt, studied neuroscience in France, Germany and the UK, and now try to understand cognition and sleep in Austria. My work sits at the intersection of neuroscience, cognition, data science and machine learning. My path has given me a cross-cultural perspective that has shaped how I think about the brain and life in general.

I am Muslim, Arab, African, and Egyptian, and I’ve spent most of my adult life in Europe. I don’t see these as separate identities to reconcile, but as layers of experience through which I see the world, science, and the mind itself.

This is my story, shaped by culture, science, and, above all, thought. Welcome.