Associate Professor Luca Cocchi

Associate Professor Luca Cocchi obtained his PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Lausanne and Geneva (Switzerland) in 2007. Following postdoctoral training in mental health research institutes including the Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre (The University of Melbourne) and the Queensland Brain Institute (University of Queensland), Associate Professor Cocchi started a position at QIMR Berghofer in March 2016. He is currently head of the Clinical Brain Networks team. Associate Professor Cocchi is internationally recognised for his work on brain imaging in health and disease. He has applied novel image analysis to identify functional and anatomical brain connectivity underpinning psychiatric symptoms including schizophrenia, ADHD, and obsessive-compulsive disorders. Associate Professor Cocchi’s work is having a major influence on the conceptualisation of healthy and pathological brain functions as resulting from complex neural dynamics emerging on top of anatomical brain connectivity.