Dr Samantha Holdsworth is a medical physicist with expertise in MRI, with a special focus on imaging of the human brain. Samantha is a senior lecturer at the Department of Anatomy and Medical Imaging at the University of Auckland and a principal investigator at the Centre for Brain Research. She established and directs Mātai, a medical imaging research and innovation centre in Gisborne-Tairāwhiti. Samantha is a pioneer of fast, high resolution MRI methods. She has worked on ways of improving the resolution, speed, and motion-robustness of various MRI methodologies, including structural, physiological, functional, and amplified MRI. Dr Holdsworth is helping to draw together multi-disciplinary teams around mild traumatic brain injury, among other health-related areas.