We are a multidisciplinary team making meaningful contributions to mental health, participation, and well-being. By integrating cutting-edge research and technology across neuroscience, addiction science, clinical and developmental psychology, and rehabilitation science, we aim to advance the understanding, prevention, and treatment of mental health, brain-related, and developmental conditions.
Our team explores the psychological processes that shape human behaviour, cognition, and emotion—advancing understanding of mental health and psychological well-being.
Professor John Gleeson
Areas of expertise: Youth mental health; psychosis; digital interventions for serious mental illness
Professor David Penn
Areas of expertise: Social cognition; psychosocial treatment for schizophrenia
Associate Professor Xochitl De la Piedad Garcia
Areas of expertise: Weight stigma; eating behaviour; research methods and statistics
Dr Madeleine Fraser
Areas of expertise: Clinical psychology; self-compassion; emerging psychological therapies
Dr Elizabeth Pizarro
Areas of expertise: Emotion regulation; social cognition; empathy; borderline personality disorder; adolescent emotional development; emotion socialisation; facial electromyography; psychology education
Tuesday Chhusyaki
Gabrielle Murphy
PhD
Master's
Honours
Our team is dedicated to enhancing quality of life through participation and inclusion across living, learning, and working environments with a focus on healthy ageing, road safety, and supporting individuals and families affected by childhood-onset or neurological health conditions.
Professor Michael Cole
Areas of expertise: Biomechanics; movement disorders; neuroscience; motor control; ageing
Professor Elspeth Froude
Areas of expertise: Childhood disability, developmental coordination disorder, cognitive orientation to occupational performance (CO-OP)
Professor Laura Miller
Areas of expertise: Paediatric rehabilitation, Cerebral Palsy, motivation, engagement, parenting, participation, service delivery
Emeritus Professor Peter Wilson
Areas of expertise: Motor and cognitive development; neurodevelopmental disorders affecting movement skill, esp. Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD); motor rehabilitation using virtual-reality and related technologies; motor control and learning; motor imagery and mental training; arts-science practice in rehabilitation
Dr Thomas McGuckian
Areas of expertise: Visual perception; road safety; vulnerable road users; motor learning and development; decision-making; wearable technology; ecological psychology; data analysis and visualisation
Dr Tina Whyte-Ball
Areas of expertise: Interventions; working with vulnerable population; road safety; project management
PhD
Master's
Honours
Our team explores the neuroscience of addiction and mental health by mapping the clinical, cognitive, and brain mechanisms of addiction, substance use behaviours, and related mental health problems.
Professor Valentina Lorenzetti
Areas of expertise: Addiction neurosciences; affective neurosciences; neurosciences; structural and functional neuroimaging; neuromodulation; psychiatric assessment; cognition; addiction; neurodevelopment; multi-site studies; imaging consortia; meta-analysis; OCD; problem gambling; cannabis; standard cannabis unit; mindfulness-based intervention; double-blind trials
Associate Professor Francesca Fernandez
Areas of expertise: Ageing, nutrigenomics, mental health and memory
Dr Chao Suo
Areas of expertise: MRI; task-based fMRI; resting-state fMRI; neurofeedback; MR spectroscopy; addiction; analysis
Dr Hannah Thomson
Areas of expertise: Neuroimaging; manuscript preparation; clinical neuropsychology; cognitive assessment; behavioural intervention/support
Isabella Goodwin
Areas of expertise: Neuroimaging; computational modelling; psychosis; predictive coding; addiction neuroscience; cannabis metrics
Anastasia Paloubis
Areas of expertise: Clinical assessment; cannabis; addiction; structural and functional neuroimaging; asd
Dr Izelle Labuschagne
Areas of expertise: Social cognition; social neuroscience; neuropsychopharmacology; oxytocin; stress; amygdala; fMRI; social anxiety; emotion; mental health; ageing
Wendy Adams
PhD
Master's
Honours
Psychology Offices
The Daniel Mannix Building
Level 5, 17 - 29 Young St
Fitzroy, 3065
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