Dr Louisa Selvadurai is a Research Fellow in the School of Psychological Sciences, working within the Cerebellum & Neurodegeneration Researh Group led by A/Prof Ian Harding. 

Dr Selvadurai completed the Doctor of Psychology (Clinical Neuropsychology) in 2020, with a thesis focused on the analysis of MRI data to understand brain white matter pathways in Friedreich ataxia. She also undertook a Fulbright Future Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Department of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, USA between July 2021 and May 2022. 

Dr Selvadurai's research focusses on better understanding the cognitive and affective manifestations of ataxias and other disorders of the cerebellum, and on tracking how these and other symptoms of the disorders change over time using computer-based, remote assessments. 

Dr Selvadurai's work has included the "SCA-Remote" study, investigating monthly changes in movement, speech, cognitive, and affective function in individuals with spinocerebellar ataxia types 1, 2, 3, and 6. This work has since been expanded to individuals with spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 (also called Machado-Joseph Disease) living in the Northern Territory, via an new assessment and educational platform called "MJDhub", in partnership with the MJD Foundation and funded by the auDA Foundation. More information here: https://www.monash.edu/mjdhub

Dr Selvadurai additionally received a 2024 National Ataxia Foundation (USA) Early Career Investigator award to work on validating a scale to evaluate the neuropsychiatry of cerebellar diseases: https://www.ataxia.org/2024-naf-research-grants/