Samantha (Sammy) Millard is a PhD candidate at Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA), University of New South Wales (UNSW). As chronic pain is often difficult to treat once present, Sammy is passionate about developing ways to prevent chronic pain before it takes hold.

As part of a larger team, Sammy is currently working to validate a novel cortical biomarker for pain using electroencephalography (EEG), which could be used to identify individuals at high risk of transitioning from acute to chronic pain (PREDICT project). For her PhD, Sammy’s projects aim to modulate this cortical biomarker to observe the impact on pain sensitivity, and to understand whether a causal relationship exists between this biomarker and pain (MODULATE project).

You can connect with Sammy and follow her work through the projects below, on Twitter, ResearchGate and Google Scholar.