Person
Richards, Linda Jane
AO FAA
- Occupation
- Neurobiologist
Summary
Linda Richards is a neurobiologist with an international reputation for her research into brain function. She joined the Queensland Brain Institute in 2005, becoming the Institute's Director in 2015. Richards has been appointed to a number of Australian and international organisations related to brain function and was President of the Australian Neuroscience Society from 2017 to 2018.
Details
"Professor Linda Richards is a leading developmental neurobiologist whose discoveries have defined the fundamental mechanisms regulating the wiring of neuronal connections between the hemispheres of the brain. Her discovery that balanced inputs to the two hemispheres are critical for the final stages of brain wiring development advanced understanding of how nerves form circuits. Linda's research into the way in which animals' cerebral midlines develop, and the developing human brain, has led to a new understanding of the causes of some of the most common defects in human brain wiring, particularly malformations of the corpus callosum." [from https://www.science.org.au/profile/linda-richards]
Chronology
- 1990
- Education - BSc, University of Melbourne
- 1995
- Education - PhD, University of Melbourne
- 1997 - 2005
- Career position - Associate Professor, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.
- 2004
- Award - Charles Judson Herrick Award, American Association of Anatomists
- 2005 - 2010
- Career position - Associate Professor, Queensland Brain Institute and School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Queensland
- 2006 - 2010
- Career position - National Health and Medical Research Council Senior Research Fellow
- 2007 - 2014
- Career position - National Chair, Australian Brain Bee Challenge
- 2010 -
- Career position - Professor of Neuroscience, University of Queensland
- 2010
- Award - Nina Kondelos Prize, Australian Neuroscience Society
- 2010 - 2015
- Career position - Deputy Director, Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland
- 2011
- Career position - National Health and Medical Research Council Principal Research Fellow
- 2015
- Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science
- 2015
- Career position - Scientific Advisor, Australian Disorders for the Corpus Callosum (AusDoCC)
- 2015
- Career position - Director, Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland
- 2015
- Career position - Chair of Competition, International Brain Bee
- 2015
- Career position - Founder and Secretary, International Research Consortium for Corpus Callosum and Cerebral Connectivity (IRS5)
- 2015 - 2019?
- Career position - Chair, National Committee for Brain and Mind, Australian Academy of Science
- 2016 -
- Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences
- 2017 -
- Career position - Member, Scientific Advisory Board, International Brain Initiative
- 2017
- Career position - Chair (later Co-Chair), Australian Brain Alliance
- 2017 - 2018
- Career position - President, Australian Neuroscience Society
- 2018 -
- Career position - Member, Sectional 7 Committee, Australian Academy of Science
- 2018 -
- Career position - Member, Million Minds Mission Scientific Advisory Board, Australian Government
- 2019
- Award - Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for distinguished service to medical research and education in the field of developmental neurobiology, and to community engagement in science
Related entries
Published resources
Journal Articles
- Abraham, Wickliffe C.; Geffen, Laurence B.; McLachlan, Elspeth M.; Richards, Linda J.; and Rostas, John A. P., 'A brief history of the Australasian Neuroscience Society', Journal of the history of the neurosciences (2021), 14. https://doi.org/10.1080/0964704X.2021.1970481. Details
Resources
- 'Richards, Linda Jane', Fellows of the Academy, Australian Academy of Science, 2019, https://www.science.org.au/profile/linda-richards. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Professor Linda Jane Richards: Officer of the Order of Australia', in It's an honour, Australian Awards and Honours Secretariat, Australian Government, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, 2019. https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/2004782. Details
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Created: 27 May 2022, Last modified: 20 April 2023