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Associate Professor Atiqah Azhari holds the Provost’s Chair and serves as Associate Professor in the Psychology Programme within the School of Humanities and Behavioural Sciences at the Singapore University of Social Sciences. She is also Head of the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Programme in Graduate Studies and Head of the Research Cluster in her school since 2025. Azhari obtained her Ph.D. in Psychology and B.Sc. in Biological Sciences with a second major in Psychology from Nanyang Technological University in 2021. Her career includes Provost’s Chair and Senior Lecturer (2024–2025) and Lecturer (2022–2024) at SUSS Psychology Programme, and earlier positions at NTU such as Research Fellow (2021–2022), Graduate Assistant (2021), Communication and Writing Coach (2019–2021), Substitute Lecturer (2019), International Student Researcher at University of Trento (2019), and International Research Scholar at RIKEN (2018).

Azhari specializes in social behavioural neuroscience, focusing on brain synchrony, interpersonal psychology, social psychology, and relationships in parent-child dyads, spouses, and families. She has received the Teaching Excellence Award from SUSS in 2025 and 2024, Provost’s Chair Appointment (2024), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Fellowship (2024), Sakura Science Programme Scholarship (2025), Nanyang Assistant Professorship Finalist (2022), Best Poster Award at IASSIDD (2018), Nanyang President’s Graduate Scholarship (2017), and more. Her influential publications include “Physical presence of spouse enhances brain-to-brain synchrony in co-parenting couples” (Scientific Reports, 2020; top 100 downloaded neuroscience paper), “A systematic review of gut‐immune‐brain mechanisms in Autism Spectrum Disorder” (Developmental Psychobiology, 2019; top 10% downloaded), “A Systematic Review of Inter-Brain Synchrony and Psychological Conditions” (Brain Sciences, 2025), “Mothers with higher empathy have children who make moral decisions and exhibit higher medial prefrontal cortex activity” (Social Neuroscience, 2025), and “Romantic Partners with Matching Relationship Satisfaction Showed Greater Interpersonal Neural Synchrony” (Social Neuroscience, 2025). Azhari’s research has advanced understanding of interpersonal neural dynamics and family resilience.