Rate My Professor Bhismadev Chakrabarti

Bhismadev Chakrabarti is Professor of Neuroscience and Mental Health in the School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences at the University of Reading. He serves as Research Director of the Centre for Autism at the same institution. His academic background includes studies in Chemistry at St. Stephen's College, Delhi, India, and Natural Sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge. He conducted his doctoral and postdoctoral research at the Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge. Prior to his current role, he held positions including Associate Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Reading.

Chakrabarti's research specializations encompass empathy, autism spectrum conditions, sex and gender differences in autism, camouflaging behaviors, individual differences in social cognition, and neuroimaging techniques. His work explores neural circuits for mentalizing about self and others, fetal steroidogenic activity in autism, hyper-systemizing and sensory hypersensitivity in autism, and behavioral comparisons across autism spectrum conditions. Key publications include 'Sex/gender differences and autism: setting the scene for future research' (Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2015), 'Why Are Autism Spectrum Conditions More Prevalent in Males?' (PLoS Biology, 2011), 'Quantifying and exploring camouflaging in men and women with autism' (Autism, 2017), 'Talent in autism: hyper-systemizing, hyper-attention to detail and sensory hypersensitivity' (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2009), and 'A Behavioral Comparison of Male and Female Adults with High Functioning Autism Spectrum Conditions' (PLoS ONE, 2011). In 2015, he received the prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize for his contributions to autism research. His publications have garnered substantial citations, influencing the field of autism neurobiology and psychopathology. He has delivered public lectures, such as on reward and mimicry in autism at Central European University, and contributes to research groups like Psychopathology and Affective Neuroscience.