POSITIONS
2018 – Present: BrainsCAN Tier 1 Research Fellow, Robarts Research Institute, Western University, London, Canada
2016 – 2018: Lecturer, School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
2013 – 2016: Senior Research Associate, The University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia.
2011 – 2013: Research Fellow, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
2020: Mini-MBA, Ivey Business School, Western University, Canada
2006 – 2011: Doctor of Philosophy (Neuroscience), Cardiff University, UK.
2003 – 2006: Bachelor of Science Honours (Class 1), University of Birmingham, UK.
TOP 10 AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
2018 BrainsCAN Tier 1 Fellowship – Western University
2017 Media Star Award – RMIT University School of Science, Engineering and Health
2017 Theo Murphy High Flyers Think Tank Delegate “Rethinking food and nutrition science”
2016 TEDxSydney Speaker – Sydney Opera House
2016 Early Career Researcher Prize – Victorian Obesity Consortium
2015 Young Tall Poppy Science Award – Australian Institute of Policy and Science (NSW)
2015 Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior – New Investigator Award
2015 International Society for Neurochemistry – Travel award
2015 International Brain Research Organisation (IBRO) – Travel award
2014 Asia Pacific Society for Neurochemistry (APSN) – Early Career Researcher award
2013 Discovery Early Career Research Award – Australian Research Council
COMPETITIVE GRANTS
Research Funding total >1.6 Million AUD (~1.23 Million USD)
CIA Reichelt – Canada First Research Excellence Fund – BrainsCAN Tier 1 Fellowship – 2018-2020 – $225,000
CIA Reichelt, CIB Hannan – Australian Research Council Discovery Project – Functional impact of high energy diets on memory encoding – 2018-2020 – $428,282
CIA Vlahos, CIB Bozinovski, CIC Spencer, CID McDonald, CIE Reichelt, CIF Saling – NHMRC Project Grant – Novel pharmacological strategies to treat cognitive dysfunction in COPD – 2018-2020 – $872,000
CIA Loughman, CIB Reichelt, CIC Rank – RMIT Transitional Research Grants for Teaching and Research staff Early gastrointestinal microbiota determinants of child behaviour at age 2. 2017 – $10,000
CIA Reichelt – RMIT Strategic Equipment and Infrastructure funding – Touchscreen suite and digital stereotaxic equipment. 2016 – $76,000
CIA Reichelt, CIB Rank – RMIT PVC Discretionary Research Funding. 2016 – $10,000
CIA Reichelt – UNSW Science Early Career Grant – Impact of sucrose bingeing in adolescent rats on brain reward system connectivity. 2015 – $7275
CIA Reichelt – Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Award – Does obesity alter psychological associations to food related cues, contexts and responses? 2014-2017 – $375,000
CIA Killcross, CIB McNally, CIC Reichelt – Major Research Equipment and Infrastructure grant – Rodent behavioural testing suite – 2014 – $171,200
CIA Reichelt – Wellcome Trust Mobility grant – 2012 – $4000
CIA Reichelt – Experimental Psychology Society (EPS) Study visit grant – 2012 – $2000
CIA Reichelt – Universitas 21 Special Projects grant – 2012 – $2000
Amy Reichelt, PhD 