Steven Meikle is Professor of Medical Imaging Physics and Head of the Imaging Physics Laboratory at the Brain and Mind Centre. He is also Deputy Director (Preclinical) of Sydney Imaging, the university’s core research facility for biomedical imaging, and Co-Director of the University of Sydney node of the National Imaging Facility.
He received his Bachelor of Applied Physics degree (Hons 1, University Medal) from the University of Technology, Sydney in 1988 and his Ph.D. degree from the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, University of New South Wales in 1995. He was a medical physicist at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney (1987-2004), a visiting research associate at the Division of Nuclear Medicine and Biophysics, UCLA School of Medicine in Los Angeles (1991-2) and a post doctoral research scientist at the MRC Cyclotron Unit, Hammersmith Hospital in London (1995-6) before joining the University of Sydney in 2004. Steven is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Physics, a Senior Member of the IEEE and an Honorary Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Medical Radiation Physics at the University of Wollongong.
He is past President of the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society and serves on the Executive Editorial Board of the journal Physics in Medicine and Biology.
Research at the facility is improving patient outcomes by setting new standards for ultra-low dose imaging, which could shape radiation safety guidelines for pregnancy, paediatric and oncology imaging
18 June 2025
Donanemab, developed by Lilly, is the first disease-modifying treatment for early-stage Alzheimer’s disease to be approved for use in Australia. The National Imaging Facility supported its developme
16 June 2025
The Australian National Total Body PET Facility, launched just over a year ago, has shown that sharing PET infrastructure has proved to be a cost-effective model – bringing benefits to both patient
03 June 2025
Dr Sicong Tu is excited about helping motor neurone disease (MND) patients gain a much better idea of their disease progression: “The focus of our network is on bridging the gap between leading Aust
28 May 2025