Ashley York

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Ashley York is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow specialising in ultra-high field magnetic resonance imaging at the Centre for Advanced Imaging, The University of Queensland.

With a background in psychology, she completed her PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience in 2025, developing expertise in high-resolution functional MRI, particularly laminar methods for exploring cortical involvement in cognitive processes.

In her role at NIF, she supports researchers using the 7T scanner throughout their projects, from paradigm design, through protocol development, to image and data analysis. Her work includes investigating columnar organisation of primary sensory cortices and examining how different cortical layers contribute to sensory processing and cognition. She welcomes collaborations with researchers interested in utilising ultra-high field imaging for neuroscience applications, aiming to tighten the gap between microscale neural circuit activity and macroscale brain function.