Alistair obtained his DPhil in Engineering Science from Oxford University in 2005, was a lecturer at Queen’s College Oxford then helped lead the neural impedance imaging group at UCL, London while teaching in Electrical Engineering. He was a Marie Curie Fellow at Philips Forshung labatorium (Germany) in medical signal processing before moving back to Sydney in 2009 to start his research group in paediatric, cardiac and neural bioelectronics at University of Sydney. He is passionate about engineering technology innovation to solve problems of real clinical need. His research focuses on harnessing advancing technology and innovation to accelerate the search for new and improved treatments and interventions for childhood disabilities and illnesses.