Researcher

Keywords

Fields of Research (FoR)

Neurosciences

My Grants

  1. NHMRC Ideas Grant “Neuromuscular BaDGE - Electrotransfer of Naked Neurotrophin Gene-based Therapeutics for Accelerated Nerve Regeneration and Muscle Reinnervation” (2026-2028, Role: CI)
  2. UNSW Medicine & Health Neuroscience, Mental Health and Addiction Theme – Collaborative Seed Grant “Tissue conductivity imaging as an efficient substitute for FDG-PET” (2025, Role: CI)
  3. UNSW Medicine & Health Neuroscience, Mental Health and...view more

My Grants

  1. NHMRC Ideas Grant “Neuromuscular BaDGE - Electrotransfer of Naked Neurotrophin Gene-based Therapeutics for Accelerated Nerve Regeneration and Muscle Reinnervation” (2026-2028, Role: CI)
  2. UNSW Medicine & Health Neuroscience, Mental Health and Addiction Theme – Collaborative Seed Grant “Tissue conductivity imaging as an efficient substitute for FDG-PET” (2025, Role: CI)
  3. UNSW Medicine & Health Neuroscience, Mental Health and Addiction Theme – Collaborative Seed Grant “Measuring chemosensitivity to predict pathophysiology in respiratory disorders” (2025, Role: CI)
  4. NHMRC-EU Joint Programme on Neurodegenerative Disease Research grant, “Steps against the burden of Parkinson’s Disease” (2023-2026, Role: CI)
  5. NHMRC Ideas grant “Bionic-array Directed Gene Electrotransfer for Treating Focal Brain Disorders” (2022 – 2025, Role: CI)
  6. NHMRC Ideas grant “Cochlear purinergic adaptation as a biomarker for vulnerability to noise-induced hearing loss” (2021–2024, Role: AI)
  7. UNSW FoMH Neurosci. Mental Health & Addiction theme Seed Funding project “Investigation of the utility of tissue conductivity imaging for detection, location and management in epilepsies” (2022, Role: AI)
  8. German Research Foundation (DFG) grant "Objective EEG bed side assessment of impaired consciousness in epilepsy", (2021- 2025, Role: Co-Investigator)
  9. Center for Personalized Translational Epilepsy Research (CePTER), Frankfurt am Main, Germany, subproject leader: biomarkers of epileptogenesis (2018-2021)

My Qualifications

  • 2019: German board certification: subspecialty Neurointensive Care
  • 2015: German board certification Neurology
  • 2007: Doctorate in Physiology (Heidelberg University)

My Awards

  1. SBMS Teacher of the Year Award (2025)
  2. FoMH Education Innovation Award (2022)
  3. SoMS Award for Contribution to the Student Experience (2021)
  4. SoMS New Teacher of the Year Award (2020)

My Research Supervision


Supervision keywords


Areas of supervision

ILP, Honours, Masters, PhD


Currently supervising

Current:

  • Mehwish Mukhtar, "Steps against the burden of Parkinson's disease", PhD, Role: Secondary Supervisor
  • Ziyan Zulfiqar, "Electroencephalography based neurological outcome prediction after cardiac arrest", Med Honours, Role: Primary Supervisor
  • Kwanyong Lee, "Sleep stage classification from multi-channel vs single-channel EEG", Med Honours, Role: Primary Supervisor
  • Sarah Choo, "Effects of Virtual Reality Treadmill Training on Gait and Balance in People with Parkinson's Disease: a RCT", Med Honours, Role: Secondary Supervisor
  • Valeria Tapia Ramirez, "Acute and long-term responses to caffeine exposure in chemoreceptive neural circuits", Honours 2026, Role: Secondary Supervisor

 

Past:

  • Mohammed Alghamdi, ''Linking Cerebral Small Vessel Disease and Plasma Biomarkers to Default Mode Network Failure and Cognitive Decline in Alzheimer’s Disease", PhD 2026, Role: Secondary Supervisor
  • Oliver Kurukchi, "Optimising feature selection and dimensionality reduction in EEGbased diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease", Med Honours 2025, Role: Primary Supervisor
  • Umamah Kahloon, "Does MREPT-Derived Conductivity Enhance the Characterisation of White Matter Hyperintensities Compared to Conventional Imaging?", Med Honours 2025, Role: Secondary Supervisor
  • Benjamin Curtin, "Machine learning analysis of electroencephalographic  N,N-dimethyltryptamine and subanaesthetic ketamine", Neuroscience Honours 2024, Role: Primary Supervisor
  • Jeremy Nigro, "Feasibility of simultaneous EEG recordings during novel functional MR sequences (MREPT)",  Neurosci Honours 2024, Role: Primary Supervisor
  • Suhrad Pethani, "Electrical Source Imaging in paediatric electroencephalography-A systematic review and meta-analysis and establishment of a protocol for routine clinical implementation", Masters Degree (MRes Paediatrics) 2024, Role: Secondary Supervisor
  • Sarah Oakman, "Remote Interface for ICU Monitors", Engineering Honours 2022, Role: Secondary Supervisor
  • Mingsong Zha, "Probing the contribution of vertical processing layers of the retina to white-noise electrical stimulation responses", SOMS Honours 2022, Role: Secondary Supervisor
  • Zhao Zheng, "A dual spike-sorting pipeline for evoked neural responses", SOMS Honours 2021, Role: Secondary Supervisor
  • Emma O’Rourke, "Neuroinflammatory Responses to long term hypercapnia in mice and cardiorespiratory waveform analysis of a pre-term infant dataset", Neurosci Honours 2021, Role: Joint Supervisor
  • Roisin Connolly, "Analysis of Hearing Stability using Auditory Evoked Potentials", Med ILP/Honours 2021, Role: Secondary Supervisor

My Teaching

  • Convenor
    • Functional and Clinical Neuroscience (NEUR3101)
    • Ageing and Endings A (MFAC1525)
    • Ageing and Endings B (MFAC1526)
  • Teaching in other courses
    • Physiology 1A (PHSL2101, PHSL2121, PHSL2501)
    • Human Systems (SOMS1912)
    • Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience (NEUR3121)
    • Neurophysiology (NEUR3221)
    • Neuroscience Fundamentals (NEUR2201)
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Location

Wallace Wurth Building, Level 3 Rm 314

Contact

+61-2-9065 3742