CNH Monthly Roundtable Talk by Prof Anina Rich

Date and time: 8 Aug 2024, 11am to 1pm

Talk location: Redmond Barry Building, Level 6, Room 624

Light refreshments location: Redmond Barry Building, Level 12 pantry

Speaker bio:

Anina Rich is a Professor in the School of Psychological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. She is fascinated by the human brain and the way in which it creates such a wealth of human experience. Her research focuses particularly on attention, studying how we select relevant information from the complex world around us and the challenges of modern environments for these fundamental processes. She also studies how we integrate information across our senses, including in synaesthesia, where ordinary events result in extraordinary experiences.

Professor Rich completed her M.Psych/PhD at the University of Melbourne before receiving an National Health & Medical Research Council postdoctoral fellowship to work at the Visual Attention Lab at Harvard Medical School in Boston USA. She returned to Australia in 2007 to take up a continuing position at Macquarie University. Since this time, her cognitive neuroscience research on attention has been funded by ARC competitive grants and fellowships. She is an alumna of the Global Young Academy, a Fellow of the International Science Council, and is currently an Australian Research Council Future Fellow.