Professors’ Alex Bellamy, Linda Richards and Ross Cunnington from The University of Queensland talk about their current projects and provide a reason for us to be optimistic about the future.
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Linda J. Richards, PhD, FAA is a Professor of Neuroscience and Deputy Director of the Queensland Brain Institute at the University of Queensland. Professor Richards’ laboratory focuses on the development of the cerebral cortex and cerebral connectivity, in particular, the development of the corpus callosum.
In 2015 she co-founded an International Consortium for the Corpus Callosum and Cerebral Connectivity with colleagues from Melbourne, San Francisco, France and Brazil. The consortium brings together clinicians and scientists working to identify the causes of developmental brain disorders and how best to provide support and care for affected individuals and their families.
Professor Richards has received a number of awards and fellowships throughout her career including the Charles Judson Herrick Award from the American Association of Anatomists in 2004 and the Nina Kondelos award from the Australasian Neuroscience Society in 2010.
Since 2011 Professor Richards has been a Principal Research Fellow with the National Health and Medical Research Council. In 2015 she was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and she is president-elect of the Australasian Neuroscience Society.
Professor Richards is passionate about the public awareness of science and in 2006 she founded the Australian Brain Bee Challenge, a competition for high school students to learn about the brain. Over 30,000 high school students have participated in the challenge and students from Australia have won the international brain bee competition three times and placed in every event since 2006.
