Divya Sitaraman, Ph.D Faculty Profile

Divya  Sitaraman, Ph.D

Associate Professor

Department of Psychology

Divya Sitaraman: B.S., 2001, University of Delhi; M.S., 2003, Indian Institute of Technology; PhD., 2010, University of Missouri.

Dr. Sitaraman joined the Department of Psychology in Fall 2019. Before joining the faculty at CSUEB, Dr. Sitaraman worked as an Associate Research Scientist and Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University and Janelia Research Campus at HHMI (2010–2014) and then as an Assistant Professor of Psychological Sciences at University of San Diego (2014–2019). Dr. Sitaraman is a behavioral neuroscientist and uses an interdisciplinary approach in understanding the genetic, cellular, and circuit basis of innate and learned behaviors in invertebrate and vertebrate animal models. The current interests of the Sitaraman lab include neuronal circuits regulating sleep and arousal and how they affect learning and decision making. Dr. Sitaraman's teaching interests include Physiological Psychology, Research in Physiological Psychology, Behavioral Genetics, Behavioral Neuroscience, Comparative Psychology, Animal Behavior and Experimental Psychology.

Our work was recently covered in the CSUEB magazine: https://www.csueastbay.edu/news-center/magazine-features/cal-state-east-bay-professor-awarded-grant-for-brain-mapping-research.html