Background
Mandal, Manas Kumar was born on November 1, 1956 in Burdwan, India. Son of Chitta Ranjan and Shanti Rani Mandal.
Mandal, Manas Kumar was born on November 1, 1956 in Burdwan, India. Son of Chitta Ranjan and Shanti Rani Mandal.
Bachelor with honors, Scottish Church, Calcutta, India, 1977. Master of Arts with honors, Calcutta University, 1979. Doctor of Philosophy, Calcutta University, 1984.
Presently he is Chief Controller (Life Sciences), Defence Research and Development Organisation. India. His major area of research includes domains associated to Emotional Intelligence. He is an authority in this domain and has been involved in the recruitment of the elite forces of the country, where the chances of a bad recruit are kept as minimal as possible.
He is also the co-author to a scale that measures the Emotional Intelligence and is the first scale to do so basis the Indian construct.
His additional areas of research interests include hemispheric lateralization, schizophrenia He was a former professor of psychology at IIT Kharagpur, a visiting Fulbright Lecturer at Harvard University, United States. and visiting Professor at Kyushu University, Japan. International Scientific Exchange Award (Canada).
Member Indian Science Congress (life member, Young Scientist 1986).
Married Sanjukta, February 17, 1984.