Director
Professor Allan Snyder
Millennium Fellow
Nelson Mandela
Foundation Fellow
Dr Oliver Sacks
Foundation Sponsor
News Limited
Executive Board
Chair: Prof Gavin Brown
Prof Peter Baume
Prof Peter Doherty
Prof Peter Karmel (1997-1999)
Janine Kirk
Baz Luhrmann
Rod McGeoch
Lachlan Murdoch (1997-2001)
Prof Allan Snyder
Advisory Council
Chair: Phillip Adams
David Armstrong
Prof Ien Ang
Deeta Colvin
Marcus St John-Dawe
Fiona Hall
The Hon. Barry Jones
Poppy King
Dr Karl Kruszelnicki
Tan Le
Sam Lipski
Janne Ryan
Dr McKenzie Wark
Distinguished Fellows
Prof Daniel Dennett
Prof Vilayanur Ramachandran
Prof Horace Barlow
Visiting Fellows
Prof Terry Bossomaier
Dr Michael Djordjevic
Mr Andrew Meikle
Dr John Merson
Dr Timothy Thompson
Chief Theoretician
Prof John D Mitchell
Chief Experimentalist
Dr Elaine Mulcahy
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"The Centre for the Mind is uniquely placed
to play an important and dynamic role in breaking
the mindsets of other countries about Australia."
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Who We Are
A powerful joint venture of the Australian
National University and University of Sydney. News
Limited provided our foundation sponsorship. Nelson
Mandela is our Millennium Fellow and Dr Oliver Sacks
our Foundation Fellow.
We are mentored by Australia's most influential and
creative minds, including Phillip Adams, Nobel Prize
Laureate Peter Doherty and Oscar nominated film director
Baz Luhrmann. The Centre's Director, Professor Allan
Snyder, is profiled in the media as "a wizard"-"epitomising
the creative mind."
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What We Do
We explore what it is to be uniquely human
by investing in daring research which shatters
mindsets, by stage-managing spectacular initiatives,
and by acting as a nexus for the great minds
of our world. Our present focus is on developing
scientific ways to enhance creativity as well
as investigating championship in the broadest
sense.
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Ground Breaking Discoveries
Our shock finding that everyone possesses unconscious
skills, and that these skills might be switched on
with magnetic stimulation, challenges conventional
views about creativity. Hailed by the prestigious
scientific journal Nature as "startling", this research
continues to capture worldwide attention and is the
subject of the BBC documentary "Fragments of
Genius".
With insights from fifty champions and our multi-disciplinary
research team, we have distilled the universals of
extraordinary success across all fields of endeavour
in our Penguin book.
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Spectacular Initiatives
Nelson Mandela led champions from all walks
of life at our unique event What makes a Champion?
on the eve of the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games.
Our intellectual Partners were AMP and Ernst
& Young. McKinsey and Company have recently
joined with us for one of our most recent initiatives.
The Dalai Lama engaged elite scientists of
the exhilarating Mind Science 2002 forum.
David Helfgott, immortalised in the film Shine,
joined a cast of extraordinary talent together
with leading international researchers at the
1999 Geniuses, Prodigies and Savants event.
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Global Impact
The centre attracts unparalleled media
attention: dedicated television and radio profiles,
the BBC documentary Fragments of Genius, features
in The Times of London and the Financial Times, plus
cover stories in scientific publications and in the
major dailies.
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