Dr. Christopher Pastras is an early career researcher at the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Macquarie University. His main areas of research include auditory and vestibular physiology (including inner and middle ear function), neurophysiology, biomechanics, and bioengineering, with a particular focus on animal models of health and disease. In 2020, he was awarded the Garnett Pass & Rodney Williams Fellowship at the University of Sydney to develop novel tools to investigate inner ear function. He has technical expertise in instrumentation, data acquisition and control, mathematic modelling, and analysis, and has experience in biopotential recording and mechanical measurements of biological tissue(s) using laser Doppler vibrometry. His research involves specialized electrophysiological and mechanical recordings of the mammalian middle and inner ear using animal models, as well as experimental manipulations, numerical simulations, and morphological techniques.