Peter Bandettini has been actively engaged with advancing functional MRI (fMRI) since its inception in 1991. He received his PhD from the Medical College of Wisconsin in 1994, and after a post doc at the MGH NMR Center ('94-'96) and brief return to MCW as an assistant professor ('96-'99), he became Chief of Unit (now Section) on Functional Imaging Methods and Director of the Functional MRI Facility at National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland. In 2016 he founded the NIMH Data Sharing Team and Machine Learning Team.

His research resides at the nexus of four fMRI domains: signal information content and interpretation, paradigm designs and processing methods, and finally, applications.  He has advanced our understanding of the temporal, spatial, and interpretive opportunities and limits of fMRI and has helped foster the development of event-related fMRI, multi-contrast fMRI including multi-echo fMRI, multivariate analyses, dynamic resting state analysis, and cortical layer-resolved ultra-high resolution fMRI. His 230+ papers have been cited over 60k times. His h-index is 109. In 2002, he was the recipient of the 2002 Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) 2002 Young Investigator Award as well as the 2020 International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) Gold Medal, the Society's highest honor.

He has remained engaged in both the ISMRM and OHBM communities for over 30 years. He has been a leader in fostering scientific publishing and communication, having served as Editor-In-Chief of NeuroImage from 2011-2017. He is currently Editor-In-Chief of the OHBM Journal, Aperture Neuro, and since 2020, has been hosting a well-received OHBM-sponsored podcast: "Neurosalience."