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Professor Mac Shine is a Joint-NHMRC EL2/Bellberry Fellow in the School of Medical Sciences at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is a member of the Brain and Mind Centre and holds roles such as Treasurer-Elect of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping – Oceania Chapter and Editorial Board member of NeuroImage. His research focuses on systems-level mechanisms of cognition and brain network dynamics using techniques like functional MRI and electrophysiology.
Education: MBBS (University of Sydney, 2007), medical residency, and PhD on Parkinson’s disease brain networks. Postdoctoral work included a CJ Martin fellowship at Stanford University with Russell Poldrack.
Research interests span cognition, neuroscience, complexity, brain imaging, and evolutionary biology. Current projects include studying network architecture of attention, dynamic reconfigurations in brain states, and evolutionary neuroscience linking bipedalism to brain evolution.
Publications emphasize neuroimaging methodologies and network dynamics, with recent work on thalamocortical substrates for consciousness and multiscale neuronal organization. Awards include the NSW Tall Poppy and Early Career Scientist of the Year.
Teaching includes lectures on functional neuroimaging, Parkinson’s disease, and dementia. He mentors junior researchers in Simon Lewis’s lab and advises a Medical Honours student.