
Professor Blanca Gallego Luxan
- PhD (2002), Climate Modelling, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
- MS (1995), Quantum Chemistry, Autonoma University of Madrid
- BS (1994), Physics, Autonoma University of Madrid
- Postgraduate courses on Quantitative Financial Methods, University of Technology Sydney
Blanca Gallego Luxan PhD, MS, BS
Professor Blanca Gallego Luxan leads a research unit in at the Centre for Big Data Research in Health, ʹڲƱ.
Trained as a physicist, Blanca obtained a PhD in climate modelling from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She then relocated to Australia where she worked at the University of Sydney developing accounting frameworks for assessing the environmental impact of corporations. Blanca joined the Australian Institute of Health innovation (AIHI) in 2006. During her time at AIHI, she established a growing and successful research program in Health Analytics, developing and evaluating state-of-the-art techniques for clinical decision support, precision medicine, patient safety, and biosurveillance. In November 2017 she joined the Centre for Big Data Research as head of the Clinical Machine Learning Research Unit.
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- Teaching and Supervision
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Grants
- Centre for Research Excellence in Digital Health Co-investigator $2,500,000 (2018-2022)
- Research Project Grant in Precision Medicine Lead investigator $520,967 (2017-2019)
- Research Project Grant in Clinical Analytics Lead investigator $312,000 (2013-2016)
- Centre for Research Excellence in e-health Co-investigator $2,500,000 (2011-2015)
Hearing Industry Research Consortium Grants
- Large-scale clinical hearing rehabilitation data Co-investigator $150,00 (2015)
St Vincent’s Clinic Foundation Grants
- Predicting hospital readmission risk Lead investigator $30,00 (2015)
Australia-India Strategic Funds
- Modelling Large-Scale Linked Data Co-investigator $27,400 (2013)
HCF Health and Medical Research Grant
- An independent national clinical evidence service Co-investigator $1,000,000 (2008-2009)
- Best paper awards at international conferences 1999, 2009, 2012 and 2017
- Researcher of the year award (AIHI) 2015
- Bjerkness Memorial award (UCLA) 2002
- Postgraduate Fellowships 1995, 1995-1998, 1999
- Enabling Personalised Cohort Studies from Large Repositories of Clinical Practice Data.
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