Dr Sneha Shashidhara

Dr Sneha Shashidhara is a senior research consultant at the Centre for Social and Behaviour Change, with a teaching position at the Psychology Department of Ashoka University. She is a cognitive neuroscientist by training, and works as a researcher studying mechanisms of the brain underlying higher-order cognition and decision-making, and she is interested in the interaction between cognition and social psychology. A Gates-Cambridge scholar, she did her Ph.D., studying the multiple demand network in the brain, at the University of Cambridge. This network is active in different demands, be it language, memory, math etc. and handles many types of task difficulty. Prior to that, she did her Master's in Neuroscience at International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS), Goettingen, Germany.