Melinda Fitzgerald is John Curtin Distinguished Professor and the Deputy Vice Chancellor, Research (Interim) at Curtin University. Professor Fitzgerald leads a team of researchers and post-graduate students in nationally coordinated research focused around understanding and preventing the loss of function that occurs following neurotrauma. She leads the MRFF funded AUS-TBI and AUS-mTBI national consortia, each of 100 researchers and up to 50 partner organisations, designing informatics approaches in moderate to severe and in mild traumatic brain injury. Lindy also founded and is the CEO of Connectivity: Traumatic Brain Injury Australia, a not-for-profit that links people with lived experience, carers, researchers, clinicians and health care providers to improve outcomes for people following TBI of all severities