Noni Creasey

Noni is a researcher and communicator, passionate about growing and sharing knowledge to enhance wellbeing. Noni understands the research environment: she has worked in research institutes across Australia, Japan, Israel, Austria, and the UK. Her research breakthroughs in nanoelectronics applications and the development of new methods for assessing difficult-to-analyse diseased tissue have been published in leading scientific journals and presented at national and international forums. Since her journey ‘away from the bench’, Noni has developed expertise in engagement, marketing and communications. This has been achieved through a combination of formal qualifications and experience working with research and volunteer organisations. Noni’s excellent communication skills mean she has a flair for working with different groups to unlock and resolve core issues. It is these engagement skills that have allowed her to drive several complex and interdisciplinary collaborations to successful outcomes.

Fernando Calamante

Professor Fernando Calamante is the Director of Sydney Imaging, the biomedical imaging Core Research Facility at the University of Sydney. He is also a Professor in the School of Biomedical Engineering. After he finished his BSc degree in Physics in Argentina, he went to study MRI in the UK as a Chevening Scholar (The British Council), where he later carried out his PhD at University College London. He relocated to Australia in 2005, where he spent 12 years at The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health and the University of Melbourne. Fernando joined the University of Sydney in 2018. His main areas of research are Perfusion MRI and Diffusion MRI, and their applications to neurology and neuroscience. He has gained international recognition for his work on Perfusion MRI in particular, which is highly cited and at the forefront of the field. His Diffusion MRI methods are also widely used worldwide. Fernando has been elected to a number of leadership positions within the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), included as Vice President-Elect in 2019.

Erol Harvey

Dr Erol Harvey has been involved in the commercial and academic development of micro and nano production techniques for more than 20 years and is currently Head of Strategy and Translation at the Bionics Institute.

Erol was trained originally in laser and plasma physics. In 2002, he founded MiniFAB, a product development company and OEM volume manufacturer of polymer-based microfluidic, lab-on-a-chip diagnostic devices for clients around the world. He has worked in technological and commercial applications across a wide range of industries including biomedical diagnostics, implants, inkjet printers, microfluidics, solar panels, flat-screen displays, corrosion monitoring, elite athlete instrumentation, and space applications.

Erol has been on many Australian Government committees, both at the Commonwealth and State level and currently serves as Chair of the Industry and Innovation Forum of ATSE (Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering). He assists with commercialisation strategies and government liaison for Australian universities and research organisations, mentors several medtech start-up entrepreneurs and has been involved in starting more than 17 companies and not-for-profit organisations.

In 2012, Erol was awarded Enabling Technology Entrepreneur of the Year by the Victorian Manufacturing Hall of Fame in recognition for his achievements in entrepreneurship.  In 2018, he was awarded the Clunies Ross Entrepreneur of the Year.

Chris Christou

Professor Christou graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor’s degree in Veterinary Science. After 20 years in private practice, Chris completed his PhD in Surgery (orthopaedics) at the University of New South Wales within a biomedical engineering laboratory.

Leigh Johnston

Associate Professor Leigh Johnston is the Director of the Melbourne Brain Centre Imaging Unit and a faculty member in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Assistant Dean Research Training in the Melbourne School of Engineering. Prior to her appointment at the University of Melbourne, Leigh was a research fellow at York University in Canada and the Universite catholique de Louvain in Belgium.  Leigh’s research interests are focussed on the development of improved imaging techniques for interrogating fundamental questions in neuroscience and include pulse design for high field MRI, statistical analysis methods for functional MRI connectivity mapping, biophysical modelling for diffusion-weighted MRI, and acquisition and analysis techniques for high-field sodium imaging.

Tom Johnstone

Prof Tom Johnstone joined the NIF network as the Node Director at the Swinburne University of Technology in August 2018.

Following a BSc in physics at the University of Western Australia, Tom completed postgraduate research in cognitive science and psychology jointly at the University of Western Australia and the University of Geneva, before postdoctoral research in cognitive neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. For the last 11 years, Tom has been at the University of Reading in the UK, where he headed the brain imaging facility.

Tom’s research focusses on the neural basis of cognition and emotion, in particular the role of cognitive and attentional processes in regulating emotion, and the interactions between the brain and the body that underlie emotional processes. His research includes studies of emotion regulation in healthy populations as well as in psychopathology, pain disorders and addiction.

Tom’s methodological focus is on developing data acquisition and analysis methods to integrate functional MRI, EEG and peripheral psychophysiology with behavioural measures. Tom is an enthusiastic supporter of interdisciplinary, open and collaborative science.

Carl Power

Dr Carl Power is the Head of the Biological Resources Imaging Laboratory in the Mark Wainwright Analytical Centre. As head of BRIL, Dr Power has diverse interests in Preclinical imaging techniques including MRI, PET, CT, Optical Imaging and Ultrasound.
In the area of cancer biology in general and specifically prostate cancer biology, research is focused on the use of animal models to identify mechanisms of prostate cancer metastasis to bone, immune responses to prostate cancer and its bone metastases and preclinical assessment of treatments to prevent bone mets.

Bill Price

Prof Price is Professor of Nanotechnology and directs the Biomedical Magnetic Resonance Facility at WSU. He has more than 20 years of experience in NMR. His research interests focus on the theoretical and practical development of NMR diffusion measurements and magnetic resonance imaging techniques for studying molecular association (e.g., drug binding and protein self-association) and molecular dynamics (including restricted diffusion in porous systems). He also has interests in the development and applications of MRI technology into areas such as studying freezing injury in plants.

Caroline (Lindy) Rae

Professor Rae is Professor of Brain Sciences at UNSW and has a background in biochemistry, magnetic resonance technologies and interdisciplinary brain research. Her research spans basic and clinical brain research with the overall aim of discovering how brain biochemistry underlies brain function. She has 20 years of experience in NMR and 15 years of experience in MR applications in vivo.

Markus Barth

Professor Markus Barth was awarded an ARC Future Fellowship in 2014 and now leads the ultra-high-field human MR research program at the Centre for Advanced Imaging, University of Queensland. He graduated from the Vienna University of Technology in Technical Physics in 1995 and was awarded his Doctorate in the Technical Sciences in 1999. He worked as a Senior Researcher at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour (Radboud University Nijmegen, NL) and at the Erwin L. Hahn Institute for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (University Essen-Duisburg, D).

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