Professor Jozef Gecz is a senior principal research fellow at National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC),and professor of human genetics at the Department of Paediatrics at University of Adelaide. Professor Gecz also established and heads the Neurogenetics Research Program at the Women's and Children's Hospital in Adelaide. Professor Gecz’s research interests include gene identification and functional, cellular and molecular modelling of intellectual disability, epilepsy and cerebral palsy for better management and eventually treatment of these disorders.