People

Mac Shine, Principal Investigator – Mac is a systems neurobiologist working to understand the mechanisms of cognition and attention using functional brain imaging, both in health and disease. He has a particular interest in understanding how the different arms of the ascending arousal system flexibly modulate the cross-scale organisation of the brain to facilitate adaptive behaviour. He is currently working as a joint NHMRC/Bellberry fellow at The University of Sydney.

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Uxvu7CsAAAAJ

Twitter: @jmacshine

Eli Müller, Research Fellow – Eli is a postgraduate researcher in physics and neuroscience within the Brain and Mind Centre at the University of Sydney. His research focusses on systems neuroscience, using dynamical systems theory to guide analysis of large scale biophysical brain models of arousal, Parkinson’s disease, and deep brain stimulation treatments. He uses insights gleaned from these models, and their anatomical underpinnings, to shape novel techniques for analysing whole-brain neuroimaging datasets with a particular focus on brain state trajectories across cognition and consciousness.

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=h1gl_ckAAAAJ

Twitter: @eli_j_muller

Brandon Munn, Research Fellow – Brandon is a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Sydney. His career goal is to understand the hidden order of complex systems through physics-inspired insights. He has a particular interest in the brain and how its many cross-scale systems interact to give rise to a singular unified conscious experience. This passion was ingrained from his doctoral studies within the Complex Systems group at the University of Sydney’s School of Physics. He is currently a research fellow at the University of Sydney’s Brain and Mind Centre, where he is applying his novel skillset to understand the machinations of the human mind.

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=D9bDLRoAAAAJ

Twitter: @DrBMunn

Giulia Baracchini, Postdoctoral Researcher – Giulia is a CIHR Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Sydney within the Brain and Mind Centre. She did her PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at the Montreal Neurological Institute at McGill University, in Canada. During her graduate studies, she used state-of-the-art neuroimaging techniques and introduced new multivariate statistical approaches to better quantify and contextualise fMRI BOLD signal dynamics within the brain’s vaster dynamic multi-scale architecture. In her postdoc, Giulia is interested in taking this work a step further and broaden the lens through which cognition and behaviour are operationalised and linked to neuroimaging data in cognitive neuroscience. Giulia’s goal is to build more accurate models of brain-behaviour interactions, leveraging theories and tools from different disciplines, within and outside neuroscience, that deal with multi-scale complex systems, such as the brain.

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ukWtjk0AAAAJ

Twitter: @giuliaabaracc; Personal Website: https://giuliabaracchini.academic.ws

Annie Bryant, Postdoctoral Fellow – Annie works on problems that combine computational neuroscience with multidisciplinary neuroimaging data. She previously studied Alzheimer’s disease neuropathology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, implementing techniques from neuroimaging and bioinformatics. Annie’s thesis research now focuses on data-driven time-series analysis of altered brain dynamics across conditions, including Alzheimer’s disease and neuropsychiatric disorders.

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=z7tXyHMAAAAJ&hl=en

Twitter: @AnnieGBryant