Associate ProfessorCindy Thamrin

A/Prof. Cindy Thamrin is currently a Principal Research Scientist at the Australian Department of Health and Aged Care. She is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney.

A/Prof. Thamrin has a dual background in respiratory physiology and electronic engineering. She was a Research Leader at the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research (where she is now an Honorary Affiliate), where she led the Airway Physiology Group together with Prof. Greg King. She received her PhD in 2006 at the University of Western Australia, where she investigated high frequency respiratory mechanics measured using the forced oscillation technique (FOT), and changes with lung volume could be used to provide insight into chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

A/Prof. Thamrin was postdoctoral fellow at the Children’s University Hospital of Bern, Switzerland. During this time, she became interested in novel methods of analysing respiratory data, and their potential in clinical phenotyping, monitoring, and prediction of future outcomes in airways diseases.

Her work has been recognised by multiple awards including the John Read Prize for Physiology Research by the Thoracic Society of Australia and NZ (TSANZ), and the prestigious Ann Woolcock Award from the American Thoracic Society (ATS) for outstanding contributions and future promise in asthma research. She has previously secured funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), TSANZ, European Respiratory Society and the Swiss National Science Foundation. She was an NHMRC Career Development Fellow (Level 1).