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About Us
The CNRC comprises 40 research staff and more than 60 higher degree research students from four faculties across the University of Adelaide, and several external stakeholders with expertise or interest in computational neuroscience.
By establishing communication and links between related fields of research and key individuals throughout the University of Adelaide and beyond, the CNRC hopes to become more than the sum of its parts, attracting new or additional research funding and building impetus in computational neuroscience research.
The two main aims of the CNRC are:
1) to understand, model and ultimately reverse engineer animal and human nervous systems, developing new computational technologies for application in a wide range of areas, especially where perceptual and cognitive processes are required;
2) to explore potential interfacing between neural tissue and silicon circuitry to develop new medical technologies for application in cases where neurological impairment exists.
The CNRC is led by an inter-disciplinary Steering Committee.
Steering Committee
BSc (Hons), PhD (Flinders)
David O'Carroll lectures in Physiology at the University of Adelaide and is co-convenor of the CNRC. David has worked at the Australian National University, the University of Cambridge and the University of Washington, Seattle, on cross-discipline aspects of vision ranging from visual ecology in insects through to biomimetic artificial vision.
BMBS, FRACP, PhD (Melb)
Simon Koblar is a clincial neurologist with research interests in stroke and neural stem cells. Based in the discipline of Genetics, his team focusses on neurological development and disease, and in the genetically coordinated process of 'wiring up' the nervous system which occurs during embryonic development. His research laboratory is particularly interested in understanding the molecular mechanisms that control guidance of neural connections and movement of neural stem cells.
BSc (Hons), PhD (Adel), C Eng, C Phys, F-IEEE
With a mix of UK and Australian academic and employment experience in his career to date, Derek Abbott is a lecturer with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering as well as an active researcher with a focus on biomedical and biologically inspired engineering. His current interests are in VLSI, GaAs, photodetectors, imaging devices, device physics, noise, stochastic processing and neural models.
BA (Hons), (Sydney), PhD (Macquarie)
Anna's research investigates how our brains process visual information to enable us to make hand and eye movements and navigate visually complex environments. How do humans know where objects are in space? How do humans use visual information to guide our eyes and hands to interact with our environment? She adopts a behavioural approach to answer these questions, conducting experiments on visual, hand and eye movement performance in human subjects.
BA (UNSW), DPhil (Oxford)
Gerard O'Brien heads the University of Adelaide's School of Humanities. His principal research interests are in the theoretical foundations of cognitive science, neurocomputational models of cognition and consciousness, and neurophilosophical theories of mental representation and the self.
BSc, LLB, MSc, PhD
Anton van den Hengel is the Director of the Australian Centre for Visual Technologies and a senior lecturer in the School of Computer Science at the University of Adelaide.
BSc (Hons), PhD (Griffith), G Cert Ed (JCU)
Robert Vink has forged a formidable career in research and academia, notably in Neurology at the University of California (San Francisco), at James Cook University and now at the University of Adelaide, where he heads the School of Medical Sciences. His research is focussed on the recognition of secondary injury factors associated with the development of functional deficits following traumatic brain injury/damage to the central nervous system. The development of novel pharmacotherapies that improve outcome is a related area of effort.
B.Biotech (Hons) (Flinders)
The coordinator is responsible for maintaining the website and database, fostering communication between CNRC members and industry stakeholders, organising events and assisting with grant preparation.
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