Steven Meikle

University of Sydney Node Co-Director

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. His research aims to develop novel imaging instrumentation and methodology for emission tomography (PET and SPECT) that pushes these technologies towards their physical limits of sensitivity, spatial resolution and quantitative accuracy. He also collaborates widely with neuroscientists, chemists and clinical scientists who use these techniques to elucidate the molecular mechanisms regulating physiological function in health and disease, and to evaluate novel imaging probes, biomarkers and therapies. Steven is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Physics, a Senior Member of the IEEE and Past President of the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society.