Dr. Tarek Bellaj
Associate Professor in Social Neuroscience at Qatar University
Tarek Bellaj is an Associate Professor in Social Neuroscience at Qatar University. He holds a Ph.D. in neuropsychology from Tunis University after a Fulbright scholarship in the psychophysiology lab at Pennsylvania State University and a training scholarship in the neuropsychology department at Liège University. He has taught neuropsychology at the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences of Tunis and has been a Visiting Professor at the Lebanese University and at Angers University in France.
His research interests are in cultural and clinical neuropsychology. His work incorporates multiple facets of these axes as applied to memory, executive functions, and emotional dysfunctions in neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric disorders in Arabic culture. Dr. Bellaj has translated and developed many neuropsychological tests adapted to Arabic-speaking populations and published many articles and book chapters on "Neuropsychological assessment and culture". Dr. Bellaj has been the President of the Tunisian Psychological Society from 2007 to 2013.
