Associate Professor James Roberts

James Roberts leads the Brain Modelling Group at QIMR Berghofer. He joined the Institute in 2010 after obtaining his PhD in physics at the University of Sydney, and was appointed as a Team Head in 2018 then Group Leader in 2023. Most of his research lies broadly in the field of computational neuroscience, at the intersection of physics, mathematics, neuroscience, and neurology. He combines computational and analytical methods with clinical electrophysiological and neuroimaging data, to tackle complex problems in neuroscience and brain health. This work currently follows two major themes: developing new diagnostic tools for infant and child brain health, and modelling large-scale brain activity across the lifespan in health and disease.