Anirudh Krishnakumar joined the MATTER Lab as a PhD student in March of 2016. He successfully defended his thesis on June 17, 2020 on the topic of mental health disorders and collaborative open science, through the Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity (CRI, Paris).
Anirudh’s research interests include empowering various stakeholders in the autism community to develop projects together in a more open model of scientific inquiry. He founded the CRI outreach program in Chennai, India, where students from different disciplines learn and apply innovative approaches in research and education on projects associated with mental health disorders.