I am a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and a member of the Center for Consciousness Science at the University of Michigan Medical School. I have a multidisciplinary background including psychology, biology, cognitive neuroscience, and neuroimaging. I study the mechanistic role of large-scale brain networks in conscious cognition and its alteration by pharmacologic, neuropathologic and psychiatric manipulations using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

The neural substrates of consciousness, e.g., the boundaries between conscious and non-conscious processing.
Neural signatures in human subjects during awake, anesthesia, vegetative state, and mental/cognitive disorders.
Spatiotemporal configurations and alterations of large-scale brain dynamics.
Perceptual awareness.