Dr. Zahra Jafari is an Assistant Professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, within the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders. Her interdisciplinary research spans cognitive neuroscience, auditory science, and artificial intelligence, with a focus on healthy aging, frailty, cognitive decline, and dementia. Dr. Jafari has contributed significantly to understanding the impact of environmental factors on aging, including co-authoring a systematic review and meta-analysis published in Age and Ageing, which found that exposure to air pollution increases the risk of frailty in middle-aged and older adults. Her work also explores auditory processing, speech analysis, multilingualism, and music perception, aiming to develop interventions that enhance quality of life for aging populations.