Professor Arjune Sen

Professor of Global Epilepsy

Professor Arjune Sen is appointed as Consultant Neurologist at The John Radcliffe Hospital, NIHR BRC Senior Research Fellow in Epileptology, Professor of Global Epilepsy at the University of Oxford and is Head of the Oxford Epilepsy Research Group.

He is interested in global epileptology and comorbidities experienced by people with epilepsy. He retains a key interest in epilepsy genomics; is a principal investigator of the EPIGEN Consortium and has organised two of the recent annual EPIGEN meetings. He leads projects concentrating on deep phenotyping.

Arjune is the current topic advisor to the NICE Epilepsy Guidelines; council member of the ILAE British Chapter and overseas director at the Institute of Neuroscience in Kolkata. His total grant portfolio, as a chief investigator, exceeds £8.2M and he is the UK lead investigator for multiple studies and trials. He supervises 6 current PhD students; has published 8 Chapters in the past 5 years and Guest Edited recent Special Editions for Seizure (2020) and Epilepsy & Behavior (2019).