Dr. Diwadkar is a Provost Fellow and Career Development Chair and a multiple recipient of Wayne State’s Faculty Research Excellence and Teaching Excellence awards. He is internationally recognized for his work in brain imaging, and is a renowned media expert on schizophrenia and other neuropsychiatric disorders. Dr. Diwadkar is an associate editor and editorial board member for Frontiers in Schizophrenia and Frontiers in Neuropsychiatric Imaging and Stimulation, editorial board member for Journal of Affective Disorders and invited guest lecturer and presenter at symposia and national meetings around the world.

His areas of expertise include network analyses of fMRI signals and understanding the relevance of brain network dysfunction for psychiatric illnesses and its precursors.