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Dr Kirstan Vessey

Associate Professor - School of Science and Technology

Phone: +61 +61 2 6773 5358

Building: McClymont building

Biography

I joined the School of Science and Technology as a Senior Lecturer in Clinical Neuroscience in 2024. I completed my undergraduate degree in Science with Honours in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Melbourne. I then went on to complete a Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences at the University of Melbourne in 2003 and a Specialist Certificate in Biomedical Research Management in 2009. After completing my PhD, I continued to work as a research fellow in the neuronal degeneration field with positions in Canada, the United States and Australia. I am a part of the Brian-Behaviour Research Group at UNE. My passion is to understand diseases that cause neuronal dysfunction and degeneration and find treatments to slow disease progression.

The University of New England respects and acknowledges that its people, courses and facilities are built on land, and surrounded by a sense of belonging, both ancient and contemporary, of the world's oldest living culture. In doing so, UNE values and respects Indigenous knowledge systems as a vital part of the knowledge capital of Australia. We recognise the strength, resilience and capacity of the Aboriginal community and pay our respects to the Elders past, present and future.