Christina is a biomedical engineer and neuroscientist obsessed with understanding and enhancing the human brain. What does that even mean? It means creating personalised, precision devices that can help people monitor and manage conditions that stop them from living their best life. From chronic neurological disease to accessing the subconscious mind to cognitive enhancement, the complex human brain can ultimately benefit from technological augmentation. And, such technology must be accessible to everyone.

Completing her undergraduate degree by night while working in investment banking by day, she pivoted into biomedical engineering after discovering brain-machine interfaces. Her interdisciplinary PhD combined biomedical engineering, neuroscience, clinical work and deep learning models. A self-taught programmer before the age of ChatGPT, she’s a pro at computational modelling for multimodal brain data analysis, building deep learning pipelines and just being a lifelong learner.

Christina prefers to spend her time on things she cares deeply about, like helping underserved populations and conducting impactful, non-incremental science. She enjoys working directly with patients and collaborating with other researchers. She has presented her research at leading global conferences and given numerous invited talks (i.e. Cleveland Clinic Neurology Grand Rounds). Over the last few years, she has also taught technical and non-technical units at USYD and volunteered on a range of initiatives.

Recently, Christina won a defence-funded fellowship, pivoting her research focus from health applications to BCIs for communication. This research aligns with her interests in preserving national security and personal privacy in the age of AGI. You won’t find much about this work anywhere, but it’s pretty cool, and maybe one day will be shared.

Christina believes everyone can benefit from STEM, so she briefly dabbled in content creation and media, but generally prefers to be in front of a computer rather than a camera. When not engaged in “professional” pursuits, she’s either running, spending time with her kid, trying to improve her restorative sleep (without sleeping more hours), or pushing her mind and body to their maximum limits (have you ever skydived?).

If you’re still reading, hi, it’s me, I’m Christina. I created this website to provide a sense of “social proof,” which seems to be important these days. But life is indeed fleeting, so I don’t take it too seriously. I try to keep the childlike whimsy that we tend to lose as adults. If you are working on cool stuff that aligns with these interests, always happy to chat!