Rate My Professor Rebecca Williams

Rebecca Williams is a lecturer in neuroscience at the University of New England (UNE), where she contributes to Health Science research and education in the School of Science and Technology. She commenced her position in 2024, prior to which she served as a Lecturer in Psychology at Charles Darwin University. Williams earned her Bachelor of Psychological Science (Honours), Graduate Diploma in Magnetic Resonance Technology, and PhD in Neuroscience from The University of Queensland. Her PhD investigated a novel functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technique to measure human brain function. Following her doctorate, she completed a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Calgary in Canada, focusing on how different fMRI techniques reveal insights into brain function and physiology.

Williams' research specializes in functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), cognition and memory, brain ageing, cerebral physiology, anxiety and depression, stroke, and mild cognitive impairment. She uses MRI to study healthy and pathological brain ageing processes. Her scholarly output includes recent publications such as "Physiological Confounds in BOLD-fMRI and their Correction" (Addeh et al., 2025, NMR in Biomedicine), "Choroid plexus volumes and auditory verbal learning scores are associated with conversion from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer’s disease" (Pearson et al., 2024, Brain and Behavior), "Machine Learning-based Estimation of Respiratory Fluctuations..." (Addeh et al., 2025, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine), and "Correspondence between BOLD fMRI task response and cerebrovascular reactivity across the cerebral cortex" (Williams et al., 2023, Frontiers in Physiology). Earlier contributions encompass "Effect of aging on cerebral blood flow and cortical thickness" (MacDonald et al., 2020, Neurobiology of Aging) and "Identification of neurovascular changes associated with cerebral amyloid angiopathy" (Williams et al., 2017, Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism). She teaches Neurobiology of Anxiety Disorders (NEUR542), Research Methods in Neuroscience (NEUR502), and Mapping the Brain with Magnetic Resonance Imaging (NEUR392). Williams is affiliated with the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and the Organization for Human Brain Mapping.