Professor Christian Cook
Professor in Biomedical Science - Faculty of Science, Agriculture, Business and Law; School of Science and Technology
Biography
Professor Cook was awarded a PhD in Paediatrics from Auckland University School of Medicine for original work monitoring in utero brain development. Subsequently he worked on the physiology and neurobiology of stress and biomedical technology design. This migrated towards high performance environments and Professor Cook has worked across a number of Americas Cup Yachting campaigns, rugby world cups as well as several summer and winter Olympics. He held, until 2016, academic positions at Bath University, Imperial College and Bangor University. At Imperial College Professor Cook was part of the newly established Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery, a centre that focuses on learning and technology in surgery and other fields of medicine, where he remains a Visiting Professor and undertakes research.
Prior to coming to UNE he was a Professor at University of Canberra continuing work on the physiology and neurobiology of high performance in sport and in medicine.
Professor Cook publishes widely, holds a number of patents and is committed to research training, having supervised over 30 research theses and projects.
