Associate Professor Tim Moss is a developmental physiologist and an expert in perinatology. He received his PhD from Monash University in 1999, before establishing the Women and Infants Research Foundation Perinatal Research Laboratories at the University of Western Australia as a leading international centre for perinatal research. He returned to Monash in 2007 and joined The Ritchie Centre at the Hudson Institute in 2010.
A/Prof Moss' research is focussed on understanding how exposure to infection or inflammation in utero alters development of the fetus to affect health after birth. His group is also investigating ways to treat or prevent inflammation and its effects on newborns.
A/Prof Moss is a leader in perinatology. He is a Board Member of the international Fetal and Neonatal Physiological Society and occupies senior positions in the Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand.
An accomplished scientific communicator, A/Prof Moss has written for crikey.com, been interviewed on Melbourne's 3RRR FM and provided expert opinion for New Scientist. He trained in science communication at The Alan Alda Centre for Communicating Science at Stony Brooke University (USA).
A/Prof Moss co-convenes BME3082 'Fetal and Neonatal Development', which is consistently ranked by Monash University students in the top 7 per cent of all units taught at Monash University.
Nitsos, I., Newnham, J.P., Rees, S.M., Harding, R., Moss, T.J.M.
Galinsky, R., Polglase, G.R., Hooper, S.B., Black, M.J., Moss, T.J.M.
Moss, T.J.M., Nitsos, I., Ikegami, M., Jobe, A.H., Newnham, J.P.