Yannick Gilanyi
PhD Candidate
Current Appointments
- PhD candidate at UNSW and NeuRA
- Accredited Exercise Physiologist
y.gilanyi@unsw.edu.au 
Linkedin Biography
Yannick is a PhD candidate at UNSW/NeuRA working with Prof James McAuley in the Centre for Pain IMPACT. Yannick’s research interests include complex pain conditions, investigating treatment mechanisms, interviewing people with lived experiences, using large language models and translating research into practice. For his PhD, he is conducting a process evaluation of the MEMOIR trial for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome to optimise and translate mechanistic and experiential findings into clinical practice and policy.
Other Projects
Conference Presentations:
- Australian Pain Society 46th Annual Scientific Meeting, Melbourne – “Bringing clarity to complexity: Strengthening the translational pipeline for complex pain interventions” – Mr Yannick Gilanyi, Dr Aidan Cashin, Dr Fernando Sousa, Dr Erin MacIntyre (2026)
Committee Memberships:
- Communications Committee member, IASP Early Career Network Education Committee (2025-present)
- Student Chair, Centre for Pain IMPACT Consumer Portfolio Portfolio (2024-present)
- Secretary, Neuroscience Research Australia Equity Diversity and Inclusion Committee (2025-present)
