Ahmad is a Senior Lecturer at Teesside University and Associate Lecturer at the Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University. He has a broad base of expertise in biomedical science and neuroscience and has published and presented extensively in neuropharmacology and neuropathology.

Ahmad's research has mainly involved investigating the molecular and pathological mechanisms behind depression, as well as neurodegerative illnesses, such as Alzheimer’s disease and dementia with Lewy bodies, using post-mortem brain tissue.

Ahmad previously supervised a National Institute for Health Research-funded laboratory-based PhD project examining the role of the thalamus in visual hallucinations in dementia with Lewy bodies and is currently co-supervisor of a laboratory-based Alzheimer's Society-funded Doctoral Training Centre PhD project, examining the role of the anterior cingulate cortex in depression in dementia with Lewy bodies. He also has expertise in neuropharmacology, with his PhD focusing on the mechanisms of action of antidepressant drugs in the hippocampus.

Co-investigator. 2015–2019. ‘Understanding the basis and interaction of non-cognitive and cognitive symptoms in dementia with Lewy bodies’. Alzheimer’s Society Doctoral Training Centre Grant. £350,000. Applicants: Thomas AJ, Morris CM, Attems JA, Khundakar AA, Taylor JP, Rochester L, LeBeau F, Blamire A, Galna B, Gallacher P.

Ahmad is part of the Neurodegenerative Pathology Research Group at Newcastle University, led by Professor Johannes Attems.

https://research.ncl.ac.uk/ndprg/

Ahmad currently leads the BSc (hons) Biomedical Science programme and teaches in pathology, pharmacology and neuroscience. He is a Fellow of the Institute for Biomedical Science and the Higher Education Academy. 

Associate Editor 'Frontiers in Psychiatry' 

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Fellow of the Higher Education Academy