Prof Robert Vink
Ermeritus Professor Robert Vink
SENIOR ASSOCIATE
Emeritus Professor Robert Vink
Emeritus Professor, Division of Health Sciences, University of South Australia
Pro Vice Chancellor, Division of Health Sciences, University of South Australia, 2014-8
NRF Chair of Neurosurgical Research, University of Adelaide, 2005-15
Head of the School of Medical Sciences, University of Adelaide, 2006-13
Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University, Washington DC, 1999-2007
Formerly Associate Professor and Head of Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, James Cook University
Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship (Aust) James Cook University, focusing on magnetic resonance studies of traumatic brain injury, 1988-91
Sandoz Postdoctoral Neuroscience Fellowship in the Neurology Department at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and subsequently Assistant Research Professor
Member of the Order of Australia (AM), 2018
Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences, 2015
Eccles Lecture, Australasian Neuroscience Society and Neurosurgical Society of Australasia, 2015
Australasian Neuroscience Society Medal, 2015
DSc, University of Adelaide, 2012
Jamieson Medal, Neurosurgical Society of Australasia, 2009
Visiting Professorship Japanese Neurotrauma Society, 2004
Former Board Member with Neurosciences Australia Ltd and with Eustralis Pharmaceuticals (Chief Scientific Officer)
Have served on NHMRC Grant Review Panels, NHRMC Assigners Academy, ARC Centres of Excellence Review Panel
Scientific Program Committee member for the International Society for Development of Research on Magnesium since 1997
Scientific Program Committee member for the International Neurotrauma Society since 2002
Current Editorial Board Member for Journal of Neurotrauma, Magnesium Research, Frontiers in Neurotrauma and formerly Neurotherapeutics.
Currently Secretary and President-Elect, the International Neurotrauma Society
Currently President of the Neurosurgical Research Foundation