About Us.
Professor Kenneth Ashwell
Ken Ashwell BMedSc UNSW (1981); MBBS Hons 2.1 UNSW (1983); PhD USyd (1988) Emeritus Professor in Anatomy at the University of New South Wales.
Professor Ashwell is an internationally recognised expert on the neurobiology of Australian native animals (monotremes, marsupials, ratites) and brain mapping. He has published 9 scholarly research books, 135 refereed journal articles and 50 research book chapters, including two authoritative and seminal works in the field (Neurobiology of Australian Marsupials, Cambridge University Press, 2010; Neurobiology of the Monotremes, CSIRO Publishing, 2013). He has also published more than 12 popular and textbooks (9 as principal author) on anatomy, physiology and neuroscience, many of which have been translated into French, Italian, German, Spanish and Polish.
Dr. Yamila Gurovich
Yamila Gurovich has a PhD from UBA (Argentina) in Biological Sciences (Vertebrate Palaeontology) and her thesis was on Gondwanatheria a group of Mesozoic mammals from Gondwana. Until recently she was a Visiting Fellow at UNSW with Professor Ken Ashwell in marsupial anatomy. She has worked at the CIEMEP, National University of Patagonia San Juan Bosco studying the rare endemic arboreal marsupial Monito del monte (Dromiciops). Yamila does research in Developmental Biology, Evolutionary Biology, Zoology and Paleontology. Their current project is 'Magnetic resonance imaging and anatomy of monotreme and marsupial brains'. She is interested in marsupial anatomy and development.