Kinesiology doctoral student Arash Mahnan awarded the Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship for 2020-21

Arash Mahnan

Arash Mahnan, Kinesiology PhD candidate has been awarded the prestigious University of Minnesota Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship for 2020-21. 

Mahnan is advised by Kinesiology professor Juergen Konczak, PhD, and is a member of the School’s Human Sensorimotor Control Laboratory. Mahnan will use the funds from this fellowship to continue his work on the development of a non-invasive neuromodulation medical device for treatment of the voice disorder spasmodic dysphonia (SD). You can read more about his work here.

The Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (DDF) gives the University’s most accomplished Ph.D. candidates an opportunity to devote full-time effort to an outstanding research project by providing time to finalize and write a dissertation during the fellowship year.

Mahnan is one of just 100 students across the University who received the award this year, along with fellow School of Kinesiology student DJ McDonough.