Associate Professor Genevieve Steiner

NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow, NICM Health Research Institute & Director of Research, NICM Health Research Institute

Biography

Associate Professor Genevieve Steiner is a cognitive neuroscientist, and her research spans the early detection, prevention, and treatment of memory and thinking problems in older people with the aim of reducing dementia risk and improving quality of life.  The research that A/Prof Steiner and her team conducts examines changes in the brain’s function and structure to discover biomarkers for dementia and test novel therapeutics that can provide early intervention.

A/Prof Steiner is Director of Research at the NICM Health Research Institute where she leads the NICM Neurocognition and HEADBOX Lab, she is an NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow and Co-Director of the Age and Ageing Clinical Academic Group for the Sydney Partnership for Health, Education, Research, and Enterprise (SPHERE).

For more information and recent news, please see http://gensteiner.com 

Research Interests

  • Alzheimer’s Disease
  • Cognitive Decline
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Dementia
  • Electrophysiology
  • Learning and Memory
  • Mild Cognitive Impairment
  • Multivariate Statistics
  • Psychology
  • Psychophysiology

Qualifications and Recognition

  • PhD with Examiners’ Commendation for Outstanding Thesis, 2015
  • Best Tutor Award (voted by students), School of Psychology, University of Wollongong, 2014
  • BPsych (Hons I), 2010

Research and Publications

https://research-report.uws.edu.au/wpubs/Portal.asp

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G.Steiner@westernsydney.edu.au