Vaughan Macefield completed his PhD under Dr Bruce Nail at UNSW in 1986 and then undertook his first postdoctoral period with Professors David Burke and Simon Gandevia at Prince Henry Hospital. In 1990, he received an NHMRC CJ Martin Fellowship to further study microneurography with Professor Ake Vallbo, Professor Gunnar Wallin and Professor Roland Johansson in Sweden and then spent a year with Professor Bigland-Ritchie at Yale University. Vaughan has been at Neuroscience Research Australia - supported by an NHMRC RD Wright Fellow, NHMRC Research Fellow and Senior Research Fellow - since 1994, before moving to UWS in 2006. Vaughan maintains an active laboratory at NeuRA.
