Rate My Professor Brenton Hordacre

Dr Brenton Hordacre is an Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy in the School of Allied Health and Human Performance, College of Health, at Adelaide University. He earned a PhD in neurorehabilitation from Flinders University in 2014 and a Bachelor of Physiotherapy (Honours 1) from the University of South Australia. Previously a Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy at the University of South Australia, he has served as a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Robinson Research Institute since 2015. Hordacre holds key leadership roles including Co-Director of the Innovation, IMPlementation and Clinical Translation (IIMPACT) in Health research concentration, Research Degree Coordinator for Allied Health and Human Performance, and Chair of the HDR Training Action Group. He has attracted over $2 million in research funding, including an NHMRC Early Career Fellowship from 2017 to 2020 and a Sylvia and Charles Viertel Senior Medical Research Fellowship from 2017 to 2021.

Hordacre's research specializations encompass motor control, neurosciences, rehabilitation, neuroplasticity, non-invasive brain stimulation, EEG, connectivity, motor control and learning, with a focus on accelerating recovery for individuals post-stroke. His contributions have led to the establishment of the Brain Recovery Clinic at UniSA, which delivers technology-focused services to optimize patient outcomes. Major awards include the Young Tall Poppy of Science Award (2021), Australasian Brain Stimulation Society Early Career Researcher Prize (2021), Brain Foundation Elizabeth Penfold Simpson Prize for best neuroscience paper (2018), and University of South Australia Early Career Researcher Prize (2018). Key publications feature 'Evidence for a window of enhanced plasticity in the human motor cortex following ischemic stroke' (2021, Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair), 'Effects of rTMS on the brain: is there value in variability?' (2021, Cortex), 'Neuroplasticity and network connectivity of the motor cortex following stroke: A transcranial direct current stimulation study' (2018, Human Brain Mapping), 'Variability in neural excitability and plasticity induction in the human cortex: A brain stimulation study' (2017, Brain Stimulation), and 'Minimum number of trials required for within- and between-session reliability of TMS measures of corticospinal excitability' (2016, Neuroscience). His work, cited over 2,995 times, advances clinical translation in stroke rehabilitation.