PhD candidate at the School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS, Paris), Parand Danesh explores in her thesis the political power of martyrological iconography in contemporary Iran, drawing on an unprecedented corpus of visual archives. Her transdisciplinary approach combines political science, aesthetic philosophy, visual anthropology and social psychology to analyze the complex interactions between images, political actions, and registers of meaning.

In 2024, she publishes Zamânshoor in collaboration with Tehran-based artist Alireza Mohammadi, whose work contributes both to her doctoral research and to this debut bilingual publication.

An independent editor and curator, Parand Danesh founded the publishing house Hoosh in 2016, dedicated to promoting emerging creative and scientific talents.