Rhodri Cusack

Qualifications

PhD. in Psychology from the University of Birmingham, England.

MA. in Experimental Physics from University of Cambridge, England

Appointments

Principal Investigator, Brain and Mind Institute, University of Western Ontario

Associate Professor, Department of Psychology and Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Western Ontario

Cross Appointment, Department of Medical Imaging, University of Western Ontario

Scientist, Maternal, Fetal and Newborn Health Program, Children’s Health Research Institute

Member, Biomedical Imaging Research Centre

Affiliate, The Africa Institute

Co-Investigator, Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience, Cambridge, UK

Visiting Scientist, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK

Career to date

01/2008-06/2011 Programme Leader Track; Acting Head of MR Physics
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK
03/2004-12/2007 Senior Investigator Scientist
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK
10/1997-02/2004 Research Fellow
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK

Recent grant awards

Jul 2012 The Canadian-Kenyan Research Partnership to provide internationally affordable neuroimaging technology for neonatal assessment and data sharing Western International Research Fund Sole applicant
Apr 2012 Assessing neonatal brain function with fMRI NSERC/CIHR Collaborative Health Research Program PI, with 8 co-Investigators
Apr 2012 New neuroimaging methods for the study of short-term memory NSERC Discovery Sole applicant
Aug 2011 Representation of sounds in the brain during listening, memory & imagery Ontario Ministry for Research and Innovation Annika Linke
Jun 2010 Probing Visual Short-Term Memory representations Wellcome Trust Sole applicant
Oct 2009 Systems Cognitive Neuroscience of Healthy Ageing: Population-representative studies of Functional Plasticity and Neural Change BBSRC Major partner, PI Lorraine Tyler
Aug 2009 Multimodal imaging of parietal brain networks in adults and children with developmental dyscalculia MRC (UK) Major partner, PI Denes Szucs
Apr 2009 Selective attention, short term memory and the parietal lobe MRC intramural funding Sole applicant
Jul 2008 Automatic Analysis for Neuroimaging MRC Technology PI with Adrian Owen

Refereeing and examination

For journals: Brain; Brain Research; Cognition; Current Biology; European Journal of Neuroscience; Experimental Brain Research; Human Brain Mapping; IEEE Transactions in Medical Imaging; JARO; Journal of the Acoustical Society of America; Journal of Experimental Psychology – Human Perception and Performance; Journal of Neuroscience; Journal of Vision; MRI; MAGMA; Nature Methods; Nature Neuroscience; Neurocase; NeuroImage; Neuropsychologia; Perception; Perception & Psychophysics; Psychological Science; Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.

For grant bodies: BBSRC, EPSRC, ESRC, MRC, NSF, Scottish Hospitals Research Trust

Examiner, PhD: Veronica Dobler, Nicholas Hon, Aspa Paltoglou, Kristjan Kalm

Examiner, Masters level: Hannah Pincham, Lefkothea-Vasiliki Andreou