Previously, I worked as a research associate in Berlin, Germany, with Petra Ritter Lab, Klaus Obermayer at TU Berlin, and Mriganka Sur Lab at MIT (USA,) and did my PhD in Computational Neuroscience from CNRS Institute of Systems Neuroscience, France, Theoretical Neuroscience Group (TNG and Epilepsy Unit), with Viktor Jirsa Before my PhD work in the USA and France, I completed my MS in Applied Physics & Nonlinear Dynamics at the University of Texas (USA)
Professional experience
Professor, Centre of Excellence in Brain Science & Applications, School of Artificial Intelligence & Data Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur, India (2026-Present)
Associate Professor, Centre of Excellence in Brain Science & Applications, School of Artificial Intelligence & Data Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur, India (2021-2025)
Adjunct Professor, National Brain Research Center (NBRC), Manesar, India (2024 Jan-Present)
Associate Professor and DBT Ramalingaswami fellow, National Brain Research Centre (NBRC), Manesar, India (2017 July – 2021 October)
Assistant Professor and DBT Ramalingaswami
fellow, Centre of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences, University of Allahabad, India (2016 July-2017 June)
Assistant Professor IIIT Hyderabad, India (January 2015- June 2016)
Research Associate Charite Hospital Berlin, BCCN and MPI Leipzig Neurology Department, Brain Modes Group (2013 July -2014 Dec)
Postdoctoral Research Associate TU Berlin Neuroinformatics (2011-2013) Klaus Obermayer Postdoctoral Research Scientist, MIT Picower Center for learning and memory, McGovern Centre for Brain and Cognitive Science, Mriganka Sur Lab (2011-2013)
Editorial Activities
Editorial Board – Physics of Life Reviews Elsevier
Editorial Board – Frontiers in Psychology
Editorial Board – Frontiers in Brain Imaging Methods
Guest Associate Editor – Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
Ad-hoc reviewer for Nature Communications, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Science Advances, Plos Computational Biology, Communications Biology, Cerebral Cortex, Scientific Reports, Physical Review Letters, Neuroimage, Imaging Neuroscience, Journal of Neuroscience, Network Neuroscience, Plos One, e-Neuro, PNAS, Royal Society Journals, Autism Research, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, European Journal of Neuroscience.
Honors, Awards & Distinctions
Elected Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences India (NASI) 2023
CNS 2024 Travel Award in Cognitive Neuroscience meeting in Toronto
OHBM 2023 merit and travel award with Gargi Majumdar
DBT Ramalingaswami re-entry fellowship 2016-2021
Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) Travel Award 2017 & 2018 with Miss Shruti Naik
DST-CSRI National Postdoctoral (NPDF) Fellowship PI-Dr.Shubham Kumar, 2019-2020 (Co-PI with PI Shubham Kumar)
CRCNS-BMBF joint postdoctoral fellowship award 2011-2014
Bennie Cecil Thompson Award, University of Texas, 2006-2007, for best graduate research
Selected Publications
Chakraborty, Priyanka, Suman Saha, Gustavo Deco, Arpan Banerjee, and Dipanjan Roy. Contributions of short- and long-range white matter tracts in dynamic compensation with aging.Cerebral Cortex 35, no. 2 (2025): bhae496.
Neurocomputational principles of brain aging: Local homeostasis preserves global neural dynamics compensating for structural loss Saha, S., Chakraborty, P., Naskar, A., Roy, D.†, & Banerjee, A.†Communications Biology (2025)
Prestimulus Periodic and Aperiodic Neural Activity Shapes McGurk Perception Vinsea A V Singh, VinodhG Kumar, Arpan Banerjee, Dipanjan Roy e-Neuro (2025)
Bhavna, Km, Niniva Ghosh, Romi Banerjee, and Dipanjan RoyCharacterization of the Temporal Stability of ToM and Pain Functional Brain Networks Carry Distinct Developmental Signatures during Naturalistic Viewing.Sci Rep14, 22479 (2024).
Sigar, Priyanka, Lucina Q. Uddin, and Dipanjan Roy. “Altered global modular organization of intrinsic functional connectivity in autism arises from atypical node‐level processing.” Autism Research 16.1 (2023): 66-83.
Majumdar, Gargi, Fahd Yazin, Arpan Banerjee, and Dipanjan Roy. “Emotion dynamics as hierarchical Bayesian inference in time.” Cerebral Cortex 33, no. 7 (2023): 3750-3772.
Sastry, Nisha Chetana, Dipanjan Roy, and Arpan Banerjee. “Stability of sensorimotor network sculpts the dynamic repertoire of resting state over lifespan.” Cerebral Cortex 33.4 (2023): 1246-1262.
Kumar, Neeraj, Amit Jaiswal, Dipanjan Roy, and Arpan Banerjee. “Effective networks mediate right hemispheric dominance of human 40 Hz auditory steady-state response.” Neuropsychologia (2023): 108559.
Nair, Indrajith R., Guncha Bhasin, and Dipanjan Roy. “Hippocampus Maintains a Coherent Map Under Reward Feature–Landmark Cue Conflict” Frontiers in Neural Circuits (2022): 31.
Pathak, Anagh, Vivek Sharma, Dipanjan Roy, and Arpan Banerjee. “Biophysical mechanism underlying compensatory preservation of neural synchrony over the adult lifespan.” Communications Biology 5, no. 1 (2022): 1-12.
