Manas K. Mandal

Manas Kumar Mandal is the Director of the Defence Institute of Psychological Research (DIPR), Delhi, India since January 5, 2004. He was born on November 1 1956.

He has obtained his Postgraduation and Doctorate from Calcutta University in 1979  and  1984, respectively. He has completed his  post-doctoral  research programme at University of Delaware ( Fulbright  Fellow), USA  in 1986-87  and  at University of Waterloo (Shastri  &  NSERC  Fellow), Canada, in 1993-94.

His areas of research interests include Hemispheric lateralization.

Presently he is on lien from IIT Kharagpur.

Fellowships and Awards

 * International Scientific Exchange Award (Canada)
 * Fulbright Fellowship (USA)
 * Shastri Fellowship (Canada)
 * Seymour Kety grant (USA)
 * Career Award (UGC, India)
 * Young Scientist Award (Indian Science Congress)