**Meet the editor**

Assistant Professor Dr. Phakkharawat Sittiprapaporn is a Thai Cognitive Neuroscientist who has published in many national and international publications. His other achievements include authoring chapters in other books and reviewing articles for reputed national and international indexed journals. Assistant Professor Dr. Phakkharawat Sittiprapaporn was born in Udornthani,

Thailand in 1970. He received the B.A. (Hons.) (English) and M.A. (Linguistics) from Srinakharinwirot University and Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand in 1993 and 1997, respectively. He received a Ph.D. degree in Neurosciences from Mahidol University, Thailand, in 2002 and became a postdoctoral fellow at the Clinical Cognitive Neuroscience Center (CCNC), Seoul National University, College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, in 2006. After working as a lecturer in Neurosciences at the Neuro-Behavioural Biology Center, Institute of Science and Technology for Research and Development, Mahidol University, from 2003 to 2005, he was invited to join the Music Therapy Division, College of Music, Mahidol University, Bangkok, in 2008. Since January 2010, he has joined the Faculty of Medicine, Mahasarakham University. He also went for a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas, USA. He concurrently held an Assistant Professor at the School of Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine, Mae Fah Luang University, Thailand. He also takes in chart of the head of the Brain Sciences and Engineering Research Unit (BSEI), Mae Fah Luang University, Thailand. His current research includes Cognitive Neurosciences, Biomedical Image and Signal Processing of Human Brain Function in Music Perception and Cognition.
