| Aida Mohammadkhani | |
| Native Name: | آیدا محمدخانی |
| Native Name Lang: | Fa |
| Birth Date: | 1987 6, mf=yes |
| Birth Place: | Tehran, Iran |
| Occupation: | Actress, neuroscientist |
| Years Active: | 1994 - 1998 / 2012 - present |
Aida Mohammadkhani (Persian: آیدا محمدخانی, born June 2, 1987) is an Iranian actress working in Persian film. She is best known for her portrayal of an innocent child who lost her money on the way to buy goldfish from the market, in the film The White Balloon (1995) directed by Jafar Panahi.
Mohammadkhani was born in Tehran. She is the second oldest of four siblings.
In 1995 Mohammadkhani made her acting debut in the award-winning film The White Balloon, playing the child protagonist Razieh, a film by Jafar Panahi at the age of seven years. She then acted in Raaz Mina (1996), directed by Abbas Rafei, and another Ebrahim (1998) directed by Hamidreza Mohseni.
Mohammadkhani also worked in the Iranian television serial (Persian: سرزمين سبز) and "Street Rain" (Persian: کوچه های باران).
Mohammadkhani received her master's degree in clinical psychology from Alzahra University. She received her PhD in 2018 in Cognitive Neurosciences in the school of cognitive sciences at the Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM). Her research focused on the orexin system in opioid addiction. From 2015 to 2017 she was a visiting scholar at Rutgers University in the laboratory of Dr. Gary Aston-Jones. Currently, she is a post-doctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Stephanie Borgland at the Hotchkiss Brain Institute of the University of Calgary.http://www.ipm.ac.ir/personalinfo.jsp?PeopleCode=IP1300016