Melinda (Lindy) Fitzgerald

Professor of Neurotrauma, Curtin University, Australia

Melinda Fitzgerald is the Associate Deputy Vice Chancellor, Research at Curtin University, John Curtin Distinguished Professor and CEO of Connectivity Traumatic Brain Injury Australia.  
Prof Fitzgerald leads a team of researchers and post-graduate students in research focused around understanding and preventing the loss of function that occurs following neurotrauma. Her team uses a range of innovative approaches to understand what happens in the brain following injury and designs and tests treatment strategies to limit the damage. She is leading the AUS-TBI and AUS-mTBI national consortia aiming to design and deliver the informatics approaches for predicting outcome following moderate to severe and mild TBI.
In her role as Associate Deputy Vice Chancellor, Research Prof Fitzgerald has responsibility for the portfolios of higher degree research and research success, for researchers at all career stages at Curtin University.