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Fields of Research (FoR)

Biomedical imaging, Neurosciences, Image processing, Radiology and organ imaging, Medical physics, Biomedical instrumentation, Deep learning, Artificial intelligence

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Biography

Associate Professor Claudia Hillenbrand (PhD, MBA) is the inaugural Director of Research Imaging NSW (Research Imaging New South Wales | Facilities & Infrastructure - UNSW Research), the UNSW Human Imaging Research Facility at the Prince of Wales Hospital. Claudia is an experienced Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) physicist who over her career has consistently devoted her research effort to imaging innovation & technology improvement,...view more

Associate Professor Claudia Hillenbrand (PhD, MBA) is the inaugural Director of Research Imaging NSW (Research Imaging New South Wales | Facilities & Infrastructure - UNSW Research), the UNSW Human Imaging Research Facility at the Prince of Wales Hospital. Claudia is an experienced Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) physicist who over her career has consistently devoted her research effort to imaging innovation & technology improvement, development of quantitative and functional MRI methods for basic and population research and active translation of imaging innovations into clinical studies and routine clinical applications. She is internationally recognised for her work in quantitative MRI-based liver iron assessment. She is a founding member of the Liver Iron Disease Focused Panel for the Society of Abdominal Radiology.  She has gained extensive translational imaging expertise as a co-investigator in over 40 human imaging research studies and clinical trials casting a very wide net: for example functional, vascular and structural changes in the developing, ageing and ill brain; specific population imaging studies (i.e., in patients with sickle cell disease, epilepsy, survivors of cancer or elite contact sport athletes); abdominal organ integrity with specific focus on hepatic iron, susceptibility, fat quantification and elastography. Under Claudia's leadership RINSW has grown significantly, now also including the RINSW human imaging research analysis support team, procured and installed new cutting-edge technology such as the world-first 4DMedical human lung ventilation scanner, and gained national attention as a technically and operationally outstanding multi-centre human imaging research study site.


My Qualifications

MS (Physics), PhD (Physics), MBA


My Research Supervision


Areas of supervision

I am available to supervise PhD and research thesis projects related to neuroscience and biomedical imaging and analysis, as well as Honours student projects in the School of Psychology & Biomedical Science (SBMS) program and Research theses. The projects I will be supervising touch on the areas of applied magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), MR physics, structural and functional MRI for neuroscience research and assessment of neurological, neurocognitive and behavioural disorders, quantitative imaging and analyses such as susceptibility weighted imaging, perfusion, hepatic iron quantification and lung ventilation to assist medical diagnoses, and machine learning in imaging supported neuroscience research and translational medical image processing.


Currently supervising

Senior Lecturer
Dr Jiyang Jiang

Postdoctoral Associate
Dr. Hannes Almgren

Honours Students
Alisia Armstrong (SBMS NEUR Hons 2025)
Malvika Naupene (SBMS NEUR Hons 2025)

 

Alumni (selected)

Abbey Kate Styan (MED SBMS Hons 2024)
Weiye Wang (BME Research Thesis 2024)

A/Prof Aaryani Tipirneni-Sajja, University of Houston, TX, USA  (MS, PhD & Postdoc supervision)
A/Prof Brian A. Taylor, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA  (Postdoc supervision)

Dr. Jan Sedlacik, MR Physicist, MR Facility, MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences, Imperial College London Hammersmith, UK (Postdoc supervision)
Dr. Axel Joachim Krafft, Siemens Healthineers, Erlangen, Germany (Postdoc supervision)
Dr. Bogdan Mitrea, Senior Solution Architect, NVIDIA, USA (Postdoc supervision)


My Teaching

BIOM9027, Medical Imaging, T3 2021
BIOM9027, Medical Imaging, T3 2022
BIOM9027, Medical Imaging, T3 2023
PATH3210, Visualising Disease, T1 2024
BIOM9027, Medical Imaging, T3 2024
PATH3210, Visualising Disease, T1 2025

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Location

Research Imaging NSW
Level 1, Building 3, Prince of Wales Hospital
High Street
Randwick, NSW 2031

Contact

+61 2 9065 3788