Professor Muireann Irish

Muireann Irish is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Sydney, Australia and a National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia Professorial Fellow. Originally from Ireland, Muireann relocated to Sydney in 2010 and has been a senior member of the FRONTIER research team since then. Her research program focuses on improving the early and accurate diagnosis of younger-onset dementia syndromes through improved clinical measures, in combination with multimodal neuroimaging and machine learning techniques. To date, she has produced 185 publications, and has secured >$10million in competitive funding. Muireann directs the MotDem initiative, which aims to better characterise motivational changes such as apathy and anhedonia in frontotemporal dementia syndromes and to improve their management. She is current Chair of the Sydney Dementia Network, and co-founder and co-chair of their flagship Lived Experience Expert Advisory Panel (SDN-LEEAP).