• Deputy Director, Centre for Pain Impact, NeuRA
• NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow
• Scientia Fellow School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney

Dr Aidan Cashin (PhD, BExPhys) is a NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow, Deputy Director of the Centre for Pain IMPACT at Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA) and a Conjoint Senior Lecturer in the School of Health Sciences at the University of New South Wales. Prior to commencing research, Aidan pursued a successful clinical career as an Accredited Exercise Physiologist, practicing primarily in the field of chronic musculoskeletal pain.

Aidan’s current research is focused on developing, testing, and optimising healthcare interventions to improve chronic pain management. This includes investigating the mechanisms and applicability of healthcare interventions to support translation into practice and policy. Most of Aidan’s work is applied to the management of chronic musculoskeletal pain including low back pain. Aidan also conducts methodological work that aims to improve research transparency and openness. Aidan has received over $11.6 million in competitive national and international research funding and received several awards for his research including the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) Ronald Dubner Research Award for the best doctoral thesis in the field of pain (2022), the Australian Pain Society (APS) Rising Star Award (2023) and the Research Australia Discovery Award (Highly Commended) (2023). Follow Aidan’s work on Google Scholar and ORCID.