Chandramouli Chandrasekaran, PhD

Chandramouli Chandrasekaran is an Assistant Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology and Psychological and Brain Sciences at Boston University and Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine.

Chandrasekaran’s research interests are in identifiying the neural dynamical systems mediating decision-making and goal-directed behavior on the basis of uni- and multisensory inputs. For instance, what are the neural mechanisms which allow one to press the brakes when the stop light turns red and the gas pedal when the light turns green?

As a PhD student with Asif Ghazanfar at Princeton,  Chandrasekaran examined how information from visual and auditory cues are combined, a process termed multisensory integration. Before that, he was a masters student at the international Max Planck Research School at the University of Tübingen in Germany. He worked with Ian Thornton, Tony Gummer, Martin Giese, and Zoe Kourtzi. He also enjoyed being a programmer with Nikos Logothetis before he moved to Princeton to work with Asif.