Akash Arumugam is an MSc Cognitive & Clinical Neuroscience postgraduate researcher at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, UK, and President of the ARU Science Society. Driven by a fundamental question, how does physical brain activity become subjective experience? his research interests center on consciousness, psychophysics, and theoretical neuroscience, exploring how the brain represents perception, space, and time across different scales. He focuses on the spatiotemporal dynamics of neural activity, working to connect internal experience with measurable neural markers using neuroimaging approaches like EEG and fMRI.

Akash works at the intersection of neuroscience, cognitive psychology, physics, and mathematical thinking to decode the relationship between biological machinery and conscious reality. Alongside academic research, he is an active science communicator at the Cambridge Science Centre and a podcaster, dedicated to taking complex, frontier scientific debates out of the ivory tower and into accessible, visual conversations for the public.