Rate My Professor Michael Breakspear

Breakspear’s career trajectory features Principal Research Fellow with the National Health and Medical Research Council, Senior Scientist and Head at QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Adjunct Professor at the University of Sydney School of Physics and University of Queensland School of Psychiatry, Associate Professor at University of Western Sydney School of Psychiatry, Post-doctoral Research Fellow at University of Sydney School of Physics and University of Western Sydney School of Psychiatry, and clinical psychiatry roles including Advanced Trainee at the Black Dog Institute, Senior Registrar at St Vincent’s Hospital, and Registrar at South East Sydney Area Health Service. Awards include the HMRI Research Excellence Award (2022) and Senior Researcher Award for brain network disturbances in affective disorders (2017, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry). Key publications feature highly cited papers such as “Network structure of cerebral cortex shapes functional connectivity on multiple time scales” (2007, 2108 citations), “The connectomics of brain disorders” (2015, 2048 citations), “Small-world networks and functional connectivity in Alzheimer’s disease” (2007, 1609 citations), “Dynamic models of large-scale brain activity” (2017, 1540 citations), and “Graph analysis of the human connectome: promise, progress, and pitfalls” (2013, 919 citations).