Anjan Chatterjee, M.D., FAAN

Anjan Chatterjee is a Professor of Neurology, Psychology, and Architecture and the founding Director of the Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics. He is a member of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience and the Center for Neuroscience and Society at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his B.A. in Philosophy from Haverford College and his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and completed his neurology residency at the University of Chicago. Dr. Chatterjee’s clinical practice focuses on patients with cognitive disorders, and his research addresses questions about spatial cognition and language, attention, neuroethics and neuroaesthetics.

Dr. Chatterjee wrote The Aesthetic Brain: How We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art and co-edited Neuroethics in Practice: Mind, Medicine, and Society and The Roots of Cognitive Neuroscience: Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychology. He has served on the editorial boards of many journals, including American Journal of Bioethics: Neuroscience; Behavioural Neurology; Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychology. He was awarded the Geschwind Prize in Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology by the American Academy of Neurology and the Arnheim Prize for contribution to Psychology and the Arts by the American Psychological Association.

He is a founding member of the Board of Governors of the Neuroethics Society, the past President of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics, and the past President of the Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology Society. He serves on the board of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and has served on the boards of Haverford College, the Norris Square Neighborhood Project and the Associated Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired.