A/Professor Luca Cocchi has proven expertise across several research domains:

• neuroimaging
• neuroscience
• computational modelling
• brain stimulation
• psychiatry; and
• clinical trials.

This broad expertise has allowed A/Prof. Cocchi to bridge traditional academic disciplines. He has established a translational research program that significantly advances the understanding of brain function in health and disease. This knowledge is promptly implemented into developing and trialling novel therapeutic interventions.

A/Prof. Cocchi is the leader of clinical trials on the concurrent use of neuroimaging and brain stimulation to target the activity of brain networks underpinning psychiatric symptoms.

A/Prof. Cocchi has published as first or last author in top-ranking scientific and clinical journals, including:

Nature Communications

• Focal neural perturbations reshape low-dimensional trajectories of brain activity supporting cognitive performance
• Movie viewing elicits rich and reliable brain state dynamics
• Large-scale brain modes reorganize between infant sleep states and carry prognostic information for preterms

Neuron

• The Low-Dimensional Neural Architecture of Cognitive Complexity Is Related to Activity in Medial Thalamic Nuclei

Molecular Psychiatry

• ADHD symptoms map onto noise-driven structure–function decoupling between hub and peripheral brain regions

eLife

• Reconfiguration of functional brain networks and metabolic cost converge during task performance
• A hierarchy of timescales explains distinct effects of local inhibition of primary visual cortex and frontal eye fields

Nature Mental Health

• Effects of transcranial magnetic stimulation of the rostromedial prefrontal cortex in obsessive–compulsive disorder: a randomized clinical trial

A/Prof Cocchi is an editor in the journal NeuroImage: Clinical and sits on the editorial board of the top journal in neuroimaging (NeuroImage).