Dr Arpan Banerjee is Professor and Scientist VI at the National Brain Research Centre (NBRC), Manesar, India. After undergraduate degree in Physics from Presidency College Kolkata, and Masters from University of Pune, Arpan went to US for his PhD at the Center For Complex Systems and Brain Sciences, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, where his thesis investigated the neural basis of rhythmic bimanual coordination using empirical and theoretical approaches. Post PhD, he had worked at the Center for Neural Science, New York University and the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA before joining NBRC as Associate Professor/ Scientist IV in 2013. Arpan’s lab has discovered the large-scale network mechanisms underlying audio-visual integration, communication strategies among brain networks during saliency processing using multimodal neuroimaging (EEG / fMRI) and computational approaches.
Lately Arpan has been involved in investigations targeting how sensory and affective processing reorganizes during healthy human lifespan ageing and in pathological scenarios and the development of whole brain connectomic approaches to understand multi-scale mechanisms that transcend macroscopic scales of neural population dynamics to the microscopic scale of neurotransmitter kinetics.
