Marcello Rosa

Marcello Rosa was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he completed a PhD in 1992. He moved to Australia for a post-doctoral position in the University of Queensland, where he worked on aspects of comparative neuroscience, neural plasticity and nuroethology with Jack Pettigrew FRS.

He received a Research Fellowship from the National Health and Medical Research Council in 1996, and was appointed in 2000 to the Academic staff of Monash University. He is a Fellow of the University of Bologna Institute of Advanced Studies, and was a member of the Australian Research Council's College of Experts between 2007 and 2009.

Marcello has published approximately 200 papers, the majority of which focused on the functional organisation and plasticity of the cerebral cortex. This includes pioneering work in developing informatics tools for analysing and sharing data on the neuronal interconnections in complex brains. He also contributed to multidisciplinary applied research towards the development of brain- computer interfaces, under the Australian Research Council's Special Research Initiative on Bionic Vision and Technology.