Christian Cook

Professor Christian Cook, PhD, is a professor in biomedical science at the University of New England within the School of Science and Technology.

His expertise lies within the physiology and neurobiology of performance, stress​, neurobiology of learning, high performance science and technical knowledge acquisition and application under pressure in medicine. Christian also has a research background in biomedical technology design​, particularly in sensor design.

Christian has worked within high performance environments including several Americas Cup Yachting campaigns (2000, 2003, 2007), rugby world cups (2003, 2007, 2011, 2015) as well as preparations for both summer (2008, 2012, 2016, 2020) and winter Olympics (2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2022). Christian is a visiting professor at Imperial College London at Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery, a centre that focuses on learning and technology in surgery and other fields of medicine, where he continues to undertake research.

Christian has over 200 publications and holds several patents and trademarks for his developments in technology.