Shabnam Kadir is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire, School of Physics, Engineering and Computer Science. Her research is in computational neuroscience, machine learning, and topological data analysis. Her academic path includes research positions at Imperial College London, University College London, NYU, and Rutgers, as well as a DPhil in Mathematics from Oxford. Her publications cover topics including art topology, connectome organization, EEG microstates, speech comprehension, and spike sorting.