Biography & Research:
Szu-Han Wang is an Alzheimer’s Research UK (ARUK) Senior Research Fellow and a senior lecturer with Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, UK. She leads a research team and aims to understand the behavioural and biological mechanisms underlying memory persistence in anxiety, and memory decline in aging and in dementia. The goal is to improve cognitive wellbeing across lifespan and in diseases. She obtained PhD from McGill University, Montreal, and conducted postdoc research in the Hospital of Sick Children, Toronto, and in the University of Edinburgh. She received awards and major supports from Caledonian Research fellowship (Royal Society of Edinburgh), Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council new investigator grant, Alzheimer’s Research UK fellowship. She provides review services for journals and funders and mentoring services for universities and charities. She is a committee member for the institutional Neuroscience MSc programme and for the ARUK Scotland network.