Dr Aidan Cashin (PhD, BExPhys) is a NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow and Scientia Senior Lecturer in the School of Population Health in the Faculty of Medicine at UNSW. He is forging a career as a clinical pain scientist with a focus on applying causal inference methods to drive evidence translation from clinical trials and observational studies to practice and policy. His research program is accommodated within the Centre for Pain IMPACT (Investigating Mechanisms of Pain to Advance Clinical Translation), which he is the Deputy Director. His research is supported by over $17 million in competitive national and international research funding and is focused on developing, testing, and optimising healthcare interventions to improve chronic pain management. Aidan also conducts methodological work that aims to improve research transparency and openness; he co-led the development of international consensus-based reporting guidelines for studies using mediation analysis published in JAMA (2021) and target trial emulation co-published in JAMA and the BMJ (2025).

Aidan is an inter/nationally recognised leader in chronic pain; currently ranked #1 Australian early-mid career researcher (EMCR) for chronic pain. He has received 13 awards for his research including the 2022 International Association for the Study of Pain Ronald Dubner Research Award, 2023 Australia Pain Society Rising Star Award, 2023 Research Australia Discovery Award (Highly Commended) and 2025 Finalist in the NSW Premier’s Prizes for Science & Engineering. He has an excellent track record in research supervision; supervising 12 PhD and 4 Honours students and mentoring 3 postdocs.