Dr Frederic von Wegner
Senior Lecturer
- 2019: German board certification: subspecialty Neurointensive Care
- 2015: German board certification Neurology
- 2007: Doctorate in Physiology (Heidelberg University)
Medicine & Health
School of Biomedical Sciences
Phone
+61-2-9065 3742
E-mail
Location
Wallace Wurth Building, Level 3 Rm 314
- Publications
- Media
- Grants
- Awards
- Research Activities
- Engagement
- Teaching and Supervision
- NHMRC Ideas Grant 鈥淣euromuscular BaDGE - Electrotransfer of Naked Neurotrophin Gene-based Therapeutics for Accelerated Nerve Regeneration and Muscle Reinnervation鈥 (2026-2028, Role: CI)
- 91色情片 Medicine & Health Neuroscience, Mental Health and Addiction Theme 鈥 Collaborative Seed Grant 鈥淭issue conductivity imaging as an efficient substitute for FDG-PET鈥 (2025, Role: CI)
- 91色情片 Medicine & Health Neuroscience, Mental Health and Addiction Theme 鈥 Collaborative Seed Grant 鈥淢easuring chemosensitivity to predict pathophysiology in respiratory disorders鈥 (2025, Role: CI)
- NHMRC-EU Joint Programme on Neurodegenerative Disease Research grant, 鈥淪teps against the burden of Parkinson鈥檚 Disease鈥 (2023-2026, Role: CI)
- NHMRC Ideas grant 鈥淏ionic-array Directed Gene Electrotransfer for Treating Focal Brain Disorders鈥 (2022 鈥 2025, Role: CI)
- NHMRC Ideas grant 鈥淐ochlear purinergic adaptation as a biomarker for vulnerability to noise-induced hearing loss鈥 (2021鈥2024, Role: AI)
- 91色情片 FoMH Neurosci. Mental Health & Addiction theme Seed Funding project 鈥淚nvestigation of the utility of tissue conductivity imaging for detection, location and management in epilepsies鈥 (2022, Role: AI)
- German Research Foundation (DFG) grant "Objective EEG bed side assessment of impaired consciousness in epilepsy", (2021- 2025, Role: Co-Investigator)
- Australia听- Germany听Joint听Research听Cooperation听Scheme听(DAAD).听Pacing the brain at low cost - development and validation of novel electroconductive elastomer multi-electrode arrays for neuroscience (2019).听91色情片 Grant听number听RG192420,听Funder reference number听57511222.
- Center for Personalized Translational Epilepsy Research (CePTER), Frankfurt am Main, Germany, subproject leader: biomarkers of epileptogenesis (2018-2021)
- SBMS Teacher of the Year Award (2025)
- FoMH Education Innovation Award (2022)
- SoMS Award for Contribution to the Student Experience (2021)
- SoMS New Teacher of the Year Award (2020)
My Research Supervision
Current:
- Mehwish Mukhtar, "Steps against the burden of Parkinson's disease", PhD, Role: Secondary Supervisor
- Ziyan Zulfiqar, "Electroencephalography based neurological outcome prediction after cardiac arrest", Med Honours,听Role: Primary听Supervisor
- Kwanyong Lee, "Sleep stage classification from multi-channel vs single-channel EEG", Med Honours,听Role: Primary听Supervisor
- Sarah Choo, "Effects of Virtual Reality Treadmill Training on Gait and Balance in People with Parkinson's Disease: a RCT",听Med Honours,听Role: Secondary Supervisor
- Valeria Tapia Ramirez, "Acute and long-term responses to caffeine exposure in chemoreceptive neural circuits",听Honours 2026,听Role: Secondary Supervisor
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Past:
- Mohammed Alghamdi, ''Linking Cerebral Small Vessel Disease and Plasma Biomarkers to Default Mode Network Failure and Cognitive Decline in Alzheimer鈥檚 Disease", PhD 2026, Role: Secondary Supervisor
- Oliver Kurukchi, "Optimising feature selection and dimensionality reduction in EEGbased diagnosis of Alzheimer鈥檚 Disease", Med Honours 2025,听Role: Primary听Supervisor
- Umamah Kahloon, "Does MREPT-Derived Conductivity Enhance the Characterisation of White Matter Hyperintensities Compared to Conventional Imaging?", Med Honours 2025,听Role: Secondary听Supervisor
- Benjamin Curtin, "Machine learning analysis of electroencephalographic听 N,N-dimethyltryptamine and subanaesthetic ketamine", Neuroscience Honours听2024,听Role: Primary听Supervisor
- Jeremy Nigro, "Feasibility of simultaneous EEG recordings during novel functional MR sequences (MREPT)",听 Neurosci听Honours 2024,听Role: Primary听Supervisor
- Suhrad Pethani, "Electrical Source Imaging in paediatric electroencephalography-A systematic review and meta-analysis and establishment of a protocol for routine clinical implementation", Masters Degree (MRes Paediatrics) 2024, Role: Secondary Supervisor
- Sarah Oakman, "Remote听Interface听for听ICU Monitors", Engineering听Honours听2022,听Role: Secondary Supervisor
- Mingsong Zha, "Probing the contribution of vertical processing layers of the retina to white-noise electrical stimulation responses", SOMS听Honours 2022,听Role: Secondary Supervisor
- Zhao Zheng, "A dual spike-sorting pipeline for evoked neural responses",听SOMS听Honours 2021,听Role: Secondary Supervisor
- Emma O鈥橰ourke, "Neuroinflammatory Responses to long term hypercapnia in mice and cardiorespiratory waveform analysis of a pre-term infant dataset", Neurosci Honours 2021,听Role: Joint听Supervisor
- Roisin Connolly, "Analysis of Hearing Stability using Auditory Evoked Potentials",听Med ILP/Honours 2021,听Role: Secondary Supervisor
My Teaching
- Convenor
- Functional and Clinical Neuroscience (NEUR3101)
- Ageing and Endings A (MFAC1525)
- Ageing and Endings B (MFAC1526)
- Teaching in other courses
- Physiology 1A (PHSL2101, PHSL2121, PHSL2501)
- Human Systems (SOMS1912)
- Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience (NEUR3121)
- Neurophysiology (NEUR3221)
- Neuroscience Fundamentals (NEUR2201)