Rate My Professor Wojtek Goscinski

Professor Wojtek Goscinski is the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian National Imaging Facility (NIF), Australia's advanced imaging network that partners with universities, medical research institutes, and government science agencies to provide open access to flagship imaging equipment, expertise, tools, data, and training. He holds a professorial position in the National Imaging Facility organizational unit at the University of Queensland and serves as Adjunct Professor of Practice in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Monash University. With over 20 years of leadership experience in research, research infrastructure, high performance computing, and imaging informatics, Goscinski previously served as the founding Coordinator and Platform Director of MASSIVE, a national high performance data processing and analytics facility at Monash University with applications in neuroscience and neuroinformatics.

Goscinski's research specializations encompass neuroimaging, neuroinformatics, high-performance computing infrastructure for imaging and visualization, and standards for open and FAIR image data. He has acted as Chief Investigator on major projects including IMP: A National Scale Data Asset to Integrate Molecular Imaging with Bio-analytics (2020-2022), ARDC Data Retention Project Phase 1: Existing Collections (2020-2023), ASDC: ARDC Platform - Establishing Australia’s Scalable Drone Cloud (2020-2023), 2nd Generation of the ARDC Nectar Research Cloud at Monash (2020-2023), and ACCS: The Australian Characterisation Commons at Scale (2020-2023). Key publications include 'The multi-modal Australian ScienceS Imaging and Visualization Environment (MASSIVE) high performance computing infrastructure: applications in neuroscience and neuroinformatics research' (2014), 'A global view of standards for open image data formats and repositories' (2021), 'A standards organization for open and FAIR neuroscience: the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility' (2022), 'Distributed Ant: A system to support application deployment in the Grid' (2004), and 'Motor: A virtual machine for high performance computing' (2006). He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the Euro Bioimaging European Research Infrastructure Consortium and has chaired infrastructure and standards governance programs under the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility, contributing to global advancements in imaging data ecosystems and neuroscience research infrastructure.