Geoffrey J. Faulkner PhD

Professor Geoff Faulkner is a Professorial Research Fellow, jointly appointed at Mater Research and the Queensland Brain Institute (QBI), and is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Queensland. Geoff leads the Genome Plasticity and Disease research group at Mater with a team of 20 researchers. Geoff describes himself as a computational and molecular biologist with research interests in transposable elements, genomics, and neuroscience. He has authored over 50 scientific publications and has been successful in obtaining scientific funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), National Institutes of Health (NIH), European government and many other organizations as lead investigator.