Mac Shine, PhD.

Joint-NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow/Bellberry Fellow at the University of Sydney

Mac is a Joint-NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow/Bellberry Fellow at the University of Sydney. His career goal is to understand how information is processed in the brain, with a particular interest in the neural mechanisms underlying cognition and its’ interaction with perceptual and motor systems. By using a combination of computational models and advanced analysis of functional brain imaging data, he has published over 150 papers in peer reviewed journals, including many in high-impact international journals (most notably Nature, Nature Reviews Neuroscience, Nature Neuroscience, Neuron, Nature Communications, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Brain and Progress in Neurobiology) and including both theoretical and empirical work. His work has also been widely recognized by the field, with over 10K citations and an H-index of 58.