Saak Ovsepian

Professor Saak Ovsepian MMSc (Med), MSc (Bio), PhD (Neuroscience)

Professor in Biosciences

Saak V. Ovsepian is a Professor in Biosciences at the Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Greenwich. His expertise is in molecular and cellular neurobiology, neuroimaging, translational biology, and neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric diseases. Using neurophysiology, molecular probes and imaging, his work elucidates a wide range of questions in neurobiology, synaptic physiology, and pathobiology of brain diseases.

Professor Ovsepian studied medicine, biology, and philosophy. In 1990 he obtained his MMSc (Physicians Associate, Feldsher) followed by MSc in Biology - Human Physiology in 1999. In 2003 he completed his PhD in comparative and evolutionary neurophysiology in lower vertebrates. This was followed by post-doctoral training in centres of excellence in the Republic of Ireland, Germany, and the USA. Throughout his career, he served as Director of Neuroimaging at the International Centre of Neurotherapeutics in Dublin, Head of Electrophysiology at the German Centre for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, and Senior Investigator at the Institute of Biological and Medical Imaging, Munich. From 2018 to 2021, he worked as Director of the Experimental Neurobiology program and Head of the Department of Experimental Neuroscience at the National Institute of Mental Health in Prague. Between 2016-2021 he was an Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Science and Health, Dublin University.