Dr. Adam Hines is a Postodctoral Research Fellow in Computational Modelling and Biorobotics at the University of Macquarie and a Visiting Fellow at the QUT Centre for Robotics. Dr. Hines’ research focus is in the intersection between neuroscience and robotics, creating bio-inspired solutions to real-world problems and phenomena. He is currently in the lab of Prof. Andrew Barron at the University of Macquarie in the School of Natural Sciences and is hosted at the QUT Centre for Robotics by Dr. Tobias Fischer.

Dr. Hines received his PhD in neuroscience from The University of Queensland in 2023 with undergraduate degrees in Medical Science with 1st class honours from the University of New South Wales (2013-2016). In 2022, he was the recipient of a prestigious and competitive Fulbright Scholarship where he undertook a 6 month research programme with Prof. Roderic Eckenhoff at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, USA.

His current research focus is on modeling the action selection process by studying the behaviour of honeybees in decision making tasks as part of an Australian Research Council Discovery Project. Previously, he worked in bio-inspired robotics for autonomous navigation and localisation systems funded by the Intel Neuromorphic Research Community (INRC) and the Australia-US Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (AUSMURI) program.

Dr Hines has a deep commitment to the broader research community through his work with the Australasian Neuroscience Society’s Student Body Committee as Deputy Chair, the Early-Mid Career Brain Sciences Steering Committee, a Flying Scientist through the Office of the Chief Scientist of Queensland, and as Associate Faculty with H1 Connect.