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 “Neuromuscular BaDGE - Electrotransfer of Naked Neurotrophin Gene-based Therapeutics for Accelerated Nerve Regeneration and Muscle Reinnervation” (2026-2028, Role: CI)
- UNSW Medicine & Health Neuroscience, Mental Health and Addiction Theme – Collaborative Seed Grant “Tissue conductivity imaging as an efficient substitute for FDG-PET” (2025, Role: CI)
- UNSW Medicine & Health Neuroscience, Mental Health and Addiction Theme – Collaborative Seed Grant “Measuring chemosensitivity to predict pathophysiology in respiratory disorders” (2025, Role: CI)
- NHMRC-EU Joint Programme on Neurodegenerative Disease Research grant, “Steps against the burden of Parkinson’s Disease” (2023-2026, Role: CI)
- NHMRC Ideas grant “Bionic-array Directed Gene Electrotransfer for Treating Focal Brain Disorders” (2022 – 2025, Role: CI)
- NHMRC Ideas grant “Cochlear purinergic adaptation as a biomarker for vulnerability to noise-induced hearing loss” (2021–2024, Role: AI)
- UNSW FoMH Neurosci. Mental Health & Addiction theme Seed Funding project “Investigation of the utility of tissue conductivity imaging for detection, location and management in epilepsies” (2022, Role: AI)
- German Research Foundation (DFG) grant "Objective EEG bed side assessment of impaired consciousness in epilepsy", (2021- 2025, Role: Co-Investigator)
- 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, Role: Primary Supervisor
- Kwanyong Lee, "Sleep stage classification from multi-channel vs single-channel EEG", Med Honours, Role: Primary Supervisor
- Sarah Choo, "Effects of Virtual Reality Treadmill Training on Gait and Balance in People with Parkinson's Disease: a RCT", Med Honours, Role: Secondary Supervisor
- Valeria Tapia Ramirez, "Acute and long-term responses to caffeine exposure in chemoreceptive neural circuits", Honours 2026, Role: Secondary Supervisor
Past:
- Mohammed Alghamdi, ''Linking Cerebral Small Vessel Disease and Plasma Biomarkers to Default Mode Network Failure and Cognitive Decline in Alzheimer’s Disease", PhD 2026, Role: Secondary Supervisor
- Oliver Kurukchi, "Optimising feature selection and dimensionality reduction in EEGbased diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease", Med Honours 2025, Role: Primary Supervisor
- Umamah Kahloon, "Does MREPT-Derived Conductivity Enhance the Characterisation of White Matter Hyperintensities Compared to Conventional Imaging?", Med Honours 2025, Role: Secondary Supervisor
- Benjamin Curtin, "Machine learning analysis of electroencephalographic N,N-dimethyltryptamine and subanaesthetic ketamine", Neuroscience Honours 2024, Role: Primary Supervisor
- Jeremy Nigro, "Feasibility of simultaneous EEG recordings during novel functional MR sequences (MREPT)", Neurosci Honours 2024, Role: Primary 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 Interface for ICU Monitors", Engineering Honours 2022, Role: Secondary Supervisor
- Mingsong Zha, "Probing the contribution of vertical processing layers of the retina to white-noise electrical stimulation responses", SOMS Honours 2022, Role: Secondary Supervisor
- Zhao Zheng, "A dual spike-sorting pipeline for evoked neural responses", SOMS Honours 2021, Role: Secondary Supervisor
- Emma O’Rourke, "Neuroinflammatory Responses to long term hypercapnia in mice and cardiorespiratory waveform analysis of a pre-term infant dataset", Neurosci Honours 2021, Role: Joint Supervisor
- Roisin Connolly, "Analysis of Hearing Stability using Auditory Evoked Potentials", Med ILP/Honours 2021, 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)