About
Dr Luke Hearne obtained his PhD in cognitive neuroscience at the University of Queensland in 2017. He then went on to complete postdoctoral training in brain imaging and psychiatry at the Cole Neurocognition Lab at Rutgers University (New Jersey, USA). During his time in the USA, he was successful in obtaining an NHMRC emerging leadership fellow investigator grant (2020 – 2025). He joined QIMR Berghofer's Clinical Brain Networks lab in 2021.
Dr Hearne is recognised as an emerging leader in the large-scale functional and structural organisation of the brain, and how it relates to cognition and psychiatric illness. He has published works using a combination of neuroimaging, computational modelling, and brain stimulation across a variety of psychiatric disorders including ADHD, Schizophrenia and OCD. Since 2021 Dr Hearne has served as a scientific advisor at the Queensland Neurostimulation Centre, a not-for-profit clinic that provides MRI-based personalised Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for treatment resistant depression.