DrHananeh Younesian

Since April 2022, I have been a Post-Doctoral Fellow at UCD’s Insight Research Ireland Centre for Data Analytics. Before that, from October 2019 to October 2021, I conducted postdoctoral research at Cirris (Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation and Social Integration) at Laval University, Canada.

My research focuses on bridging the gap between daily-life activities and clinical or sports performance tests across various populations—whether pathological, healthy, or athletic—using wearable sensors. Currently, my work, funded by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant, involves analyzing a large dataset collected through the IMI-2 Mobilise-D research programme. This dataset captures daily-life activities and clinical tests from five different cohorts across 10 European countries, with participants wearing inertial measurement units (IMUs) for seven days every six months over a two-year period.

My academic journey began in Iran, where I earned my BA in Physical Education from the University of Mazandaran in 2011. I then pursued my MSc and Ph.D. in Physical Education & Sport Sciences-Sports Biomechanics, at Bu-Ali Sina University, completing my doctorate in 2019.