Education and Positions
Queensland Brain Institute ( 2020 )
Assistant Professor
Heart and Stroke Foundation Canadian Partnership for Stroke Recovery (2019-2020) Co-Chair
University of British Columbia (2016 - 2020)
Postdoctoral fellow, Timothy Murphy Laboratory
Ludwig Maximilians University Institute for Stroke and Dementia (2011 - 2015) Graduate school of Systemic Neurosciences (2012 - 2015). Ph.D in Neuroscience, Nikolaus Plesnila Laboratory
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (2010 - 2011) Research Assistant, Nikolaus Plesnila Laboratory
University of Naples Federico II (2007-2009) M.S. in Medical Biotechnology
University of Naples Federico II (2004-2007) B.S. in Biotechnology for Healthcare
Matilde Balbi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Queensland Brain Institute
Awards and Funding
Early Stage Innovation Award, Bionics Queensland (2021)
Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research fellowship (2018-2020)
Heart and Stroke Foundation Canadian Partnership Stroke Recovery fellowship (2018-2019)
Martin Rothstein Postdoctoral Award (2018)
Interests
Scientific: Stroke recovery, neurodegeneration and protection, interneurons, brain oscillations, AI, imaging, behaviour, optogenetics, brain stimulation.
Personal: Jiujitsu, kick boxing, traveling.
Background
Matilde Balbi received her bachelor and master’s degree in Medical Biotechnology from the University of Naples (Italy) in 2007 and 2009 respectively. Matilde spent a year working on traumatic brain injury at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland as a research assistant. In 2015 Matilde earned her Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, Germany with Nick Plesnila. Her thesis work was on the regulation of cerebral blood flow in health (ageing) and disease (small vessel disease and subarachnoid hemorrhage). She completed her postdoctoral training with Tim Murphy at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, with support from the Leducq Foundation, CPSR, MSFHR. She has officially become an Assistant Professor at the Queensland Brain Institute in Brisbane, Australia in 2020.