Bringing developmental science into the modern world.

Ali Jasemi is a Developmental Psychologist (PhD) & Behavioural Scientist based in Toronto. He studies how people grow, learn, and stay well as AI and new technology reshape everyday life. His peer-reviewed research on language, culture, and adjustment appears in the International Journal of Bilingualism and Frontiers in Communication, with a book chapter forthcoming from Routledge. He writes in The Conversation, and his work has been republished by Newsweek, The Independent, MSN, and Live Science. Broadcast interviews include CBC Radio, ABC Radio Melbourne, 880 CHED, and QR Calgary. He has taught more than twenty courses across eight Ontario universities and colleges, and spent a decade in applied mental health services, including clinical operations management. He speaks five languages.

My peer-reviewed research has appeared in journals including Frontiers in Communication and the International Journal of Bilingualism, with a forthcoming book chapter from Routledge, and I've presented at over twenty international scientific and community conferences. As Instructor of Record at eight Canadian universities and colleges, I've designed and taught more than twenty courses spanning developmental, social, and applied psychology, including one of Ontario's first university courses on AI and adolescents' mental health.

Alongside my academic work, I've held operational leadership roles, managing a multidisciplinary team of more than ten through significant organizational change and building evidence-based, AI-informed practice standards. Across all of it runs one thread: a fascination with how human beings adapt, and what helps us stay well while we do.