Professor Thomas Fath, Deputy Director of the Dementia Research Centre, Macquarie University.

Thomas is Deputy Director of the Dementia Research Centre and Professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences at Macquarie University. He received his PhD in 2002 from the University of Heidelberg, where he worked on the functional role of Tau phosphorylation in Alzheimer's disease. He then moved to The Scripps Research Institute at La Jolla (2003-2005, USA) and the Children's Hospital at Westmead (2005-2008, Sydney) to study the fundamental mechanisms of actin cytoskeleton regulation in neurons. In 2009, he took on a Research & Teaching position in the School of Medical Sciences at UNSW Sydney, where he established an ARC- and NHMRC-funded research program, investigating patho-mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases and mechanisms of neurite regeneration. In 2019, he moved his lab to the Dementia Research Centre at Macquarie University, where he continues his work on cytoskeleton-associated patho-mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases.