Michael Green

University of NSW - NeuRA Facility Fellow

Dr Michael Green is a physicist and MRI scientist, Senior Research Facility Manager of the NeuRA MRI facility and a National Imaging Facility (NIF) Research Fellow at UNSW. Since 2009 he has supported researchers across NeuRA and Research Imaging NSW, from study design and protocol development through to data acquisition, analysis and publication. Researchers using the NeuRA 3T MRI system can rely on him for access, technical advice, imaging procedures and analysis support, often as a collaborator once a project is already under way.

His expertise spans the MRI research spectrum, including diffusion MRI and tractography (MRtrix), anatomical segmentation, quantitative susceptibility mapping, conductivity imaging and lesion detection, using Python and MATLAB. He holds a PhD in Physics from Flinders University, where his work on MR elastography began a career-long focus on quantitative MRI methods. He is committed to reproducible MRI research, including through the QuOCCA project, and is an active member of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) and its Diffusion Study Group.

Dr Green has led the facility’s MRI safety program for more than 15 years and developed its researcher induction and training course. He has also built secure data storage and transfer infrastructure for the de-identified sharing of imaging data. A past Chair of the NIF Human Imaging Theme Research Group, he supervises postgraduate students and lectures in UNSW Medicine & Health. Since the NeuRA scanner was installed in 2019, the facility has supported researchers holding more than $25 million in grant funding, 57 projects and 157 publications, with Dr Green spearheading its operations, training and safety culture.