Simantini (Simi) Ghosh is an Assistant Professor of Psychology and the current Head of the Department at Ashoka University, India. She teach courses related to abnormal psychology, psychopathology, the psychology and neuroscience of violence, gender, the psychology and neuroscience of violence, statistics and research methodology. As an overarching theme her research is on stress and trauma. She conducts research on Gender and Mental health. She focuses on gender based violence and studies traumatic stress. She is also interested in studying intergenerational transmission of violence and abuse. A separate strand of research in her lab focuses on exploring the molecular neurobiology of stress in vivo. Her background has evolved from neuroscience to psychology. She studied neurodegeneration and neuroinflammation , traumatic brain injury and chronic and acute traumatic stress in the past. She earned a PhD in Neurobiology and Anatomy at the University of Rochester, NY and pursued her postdoctoral fellowship in Neurology at the Washington University School of Medicine in Saint Louis, MO prior to joining Ashoka. She enjoys teaching courses that straddle both neuroscience and psychology, as well as research methods courses. Outside work she enjoys reading poetry and nonfiction, listening to classic rock, jazz and blues.