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Geoff Goodhill
Professor of Neuroscience and Mathematics
Geoffrey Goodhill is a distinguished computational neuroscientist and Professor at the University of Queensland, holding a joint appointment between the Queensland Brain Institute and the School of Mathematics and Physics.13 He leads a laboratory focused on understanding how brains process information, particularly during development.6
Professor Goodhill's academic background is diverse, spanning mathematics, physics, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science. He completed his education in the UK, including a PhD in Cognitive Science from the University of Sussex.23 After spending 10 years in the USA, including 8 years as a Professor at Georgetown University, he moved to the University of Queensland in 2005.1
His research combines experimental, mathematical, and computational techniques to study brain function and the information-processing properties of nervous system structures.5 Current areas of focus include:
- The development of neural coding in zebrafish larvae
- How growing nerve fibers navigate through the developing nervous system
- The links between brain activity patterns and complex behaviors
- How brain and behavior development is altered in Autism Spectrum Disorders24
Professor Goodhill has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers in prestigious journals and has been awarded numerous grants, including an NHMRC Investigator grant and multiple ARC Discovery and NHMRC Project grants.1 He has trained over 30 PhD students and postdocs, many of whom have gone on to become faculty members in universities worldwide or scientists in tech companies like Google DeepMind.1
In addition to his research, Professor Goodhill has made significant contributions to the neuroscience community. He founded the Australian Workshop on Computational Neuroscience in 2006 and the Systems and Computational Neuroscience DownUnder (SCiNDU) conference in 2015.1 He has also served as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Network: Computation in Neural Systems and is currently on the Editorial Boards of Neural Computation and Brain Informatics.1


