PERSONAL INFORMATION

• Year & Place of Birth: 1987, Saudi Arabia
• Marital Status: Married
• Nationality: Saudi

EDUCATION

• PhD in Cognitive Psychology, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK, (2015- 2019)
• MS in Experimental Psychology, Northern Michigan University, Michigan, USA, (2012- 2014)
• Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology, Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Riyadh, KSA, (2004- 2008)

AREA OF INTEREST

• Psychophysics and Neurophysiology of Perception        
• Personality Traits and Actions
• Psycholinguistics of Perception

WORK EXPERIENCE

• Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, King Saud University (KSU), Riyadh, KSA, (2020- present)
• Lecturer, Department of Psychology, KSU, Riyadh, KSA, (2019- 2020)
• Teaching Assistant, Department of Psychology, KSU, Riyadh, KSA, (2009- 2019)

TEACHING AND ADMINISTRATIVE WORK

• Teaching several courses, including Experimental Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, and Research Methods at KSU (March 2009- present)
• Academic advisor for Psychology students at KSU,  (February 2020- present)
• Member of the Psychological Laboratories Unit at the Psychology Department of KSU, (February 2020- present)
• Director of Undergraduate Psychology Program at the Psychology Department of KSU, (August 2020- present)
• Supervising the Psychology Club at KSU, (September 2020-present)
• Examining research proposals and theses at the postgraduate level in the Psychology Department of KSU, (February 2020- present)
• Member of the Board of Directors of the Saudi Psychological Society, (March 2021- April 2022)
• Member of the Scholarship Affairs Committee at the College of Education at KSU, (November 2021- present)
• Member of the Executive Committee for Higher Diplomas at the College of Education at KSU, (January 2022- present)
• Director of High Diploma Program for Critical Thinking at the College of Education at KSU, (January 2022- present)
• Supervising Master’s Students in Psychology at the Psychology Department of KSU, (January 2022- present)

RESEARCH ACTIVITY

• Published-Work

• Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Visual Evoked Potential and Peak Gamma Frequency. Manuscript submitted for publication. Cognitive Processing, 23(2), 235-254 (2022).
• Investigation of The Relationship Between Visual Orientation Discrimination Thresholds and Autistic Traits: A Saudi Sample. Saudi Journal of Psychological Sciences 6, 183-167 (2021).
• Investigating the Effects of tDCS on Visual Orientation Discrimination Task Performance: “the Possible Influence of Placebo”. J Cogn Enhanc 4, 235–249 (2020).
• Linguistic Relativity: Object Categorisation Differences Between Arabic and English Speakers. Jurnal Psikologi Malaysia 34.4 (2020).
• Work -In-Process

• Investigation of the relationship between Orientation Discrimination thresholds, autistic, and schizotypal personality traits.
• Correlations between autistic and schizotypal traits are not simply due to shared associations with the 'Big Five' personality dimensions.
• A Preliminary Investigation of The Transitioning to Online Education/Work From A Psychological Perspective: A National Survey Study.

• Posters

• The effects of tDCS on orientation discrimination task performance. Poster session presented at the 25th annual meeting of Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA.
• The Effects of tDCS on Orientation Discrimination Task performance at Sheffield Neuroscience Conference 2017, Sheffield, UK.

MEMBERSHIP IN SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES

• • Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS)
  • Society for Neuroscience (SfN)
  • Saudi Association for Education and Psychology  (GESTEN)
  • Saudi Psychological Association (NFS)

SKILLS

• Spoken Languages: Arabic (Native Language), English
• Computer Skills: MS Office, SPSS, MATLAB, and EEGLAB

AWARDS

• • Received grants from King Saud University to complete my Master’s and PhD in the US and UK
  • Received the Academic Excellence Award for consecutive semesters at Imam University
  • Received Academic Excellence Awards from SACB (London, UK) while studying for my PhD