Staff & research interests

BA (Paris V), MA (UPMC), M.Sc (Lyon 1), Ph.D (UPMC), Dr.Sc Habilitation (summa cum laude-UPMC)

Professional memberships

• French Inter University Center

Research Interests

• Enrobotment
• Brain-Mind-Matter 
• Consciousness/Unconsciousness
• Positive/Negative emotion
• Verbal/Nonverbal Development 
• Neurodevelopmental Diseases 
• Child-Robot Interactions
• Natural/Virtual/Augmented Environments 
• Spatial Navigation in Children and Adults
• Neuroeducation via Virtual/Augmented Environments and Robots in Children, Adults and Elderly

BA(UNE), PG Cert. Ed (Lond), MA, D.Litt.et Phil (South Africa), FAPS, FBPS, FAIM, MCCLINP, MCCOUNP, MCORGP

Professional memberships

• Fellow Australian Psychological Society
• Fellow British Psychological Society
• Fellow Australian Institute of Management
• Member US Society for Industrial & Organisational Psychology
• Member, Academy of International Business
• Member, College of Clinical Psychology
• Member, College of Counselling Psychology
• Member, College of Organisational Psychology
• Registered under AHPRA in Clinical, Counselling and Organisational Psychology
• Member (Associate), College of Health Psychology  

Research interests

• Personality at work, psychological capital and psychological wellbeing
• Perfectionism
• Psychological aspects of unemployment
• Assessing stress and its correlates - personal, clinical and occupational
• Parent and peer attachment - their assessment and correlates

BA (summa cum laude), MA, Ph.D. (UCLA)

Professional memberships

• American Psychological Society

Research Interests

• Psychophysiological and neuropsychological correlates of alcohol intoxication and dependence
• Theory of drug dependence and alcoholism
• Mind-body problem
• Biological psychology

MA (Hons) (Aberdeen), M.Sc (Surrey), Ph.D. (Liverpool)

Professional memberships

• Australian Psychological Society
• Registered Psychologist
• APS College of Forensic Psychologists
• APS College of Clinical Psychologists
• British Psychological Society

Research interests

• Psychology of Fire Setting (Arson)--(Assessment & Treatment)
• Forensic Mental Health
• Intra-familial homicide & domestic violence
• Offender profiling
• Risk assessment for violent and sexual offenders
• Self-harm and suicide among forensic and clinical populations
• Relationship between personality characteristics and offending
• Personality disorder in the workplace, development of an assessment tool for ‘corporate psychopathy’

Dip. Acc. (UNSW), B.Beh.Sc. (Hons) (Griffith), Ph.D. (Clin Psych) (Qld.)

Professional memberships

• Australian Psychological Society
• Registered Psychologist (Qld)
• APS College of Clinical Psychologists
• American Psychological Association (Affiliate)
• Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy

Research interests

• Role of Mindfulness in Psychological Well-Being and Resilience
• Evaluation of Mindfulness Cognitive Therapy Approach to Resilience  
• Prevention and treatment of psychopathology in families, children and adolescents
• Parent training and family intervention

B.A. (Hons), M Psych., Ph.D.

Professional memberships

• Australian Psychological Society
• Registered Psychologist (AHPRA) - Areas of Endorsement Forensic and Clinical
• APS College of Forensic Psychologists
• APS College of Clinical Psychologists
• Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law

Research interests

• Forensic mental health
• Prediction and prevention of offending behaviour
• Psychopathy
• Assessment and treatment with violent offenders
• Juvenile offending
• Mental disorders and violence risk
• Childhood conduct disorders
• Return to work

BPsychSci (Hons), PhD (Clinical Psychology)

Professional memberships

• Registered Psychologist (AHPRA)

Research interests

• Meaning making theory (especially the social context of meaning making)
• Stress and coping theory
• Adjustment to caregiving
• Family and couple-level analysis (dyadic data analysis using the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model)
• Secondary traumatic stress in health professionals
• Positive psychology

BA (Qld), PGDipPsyc (Bond), Ph.D. (Griffith)

Professional memberships

• Australian Psychological Society
• Registered Psychologist
• APS College of Clinical Psychologists
• APS College of Health Psychologists

Research interests

• Eating disorders and disordered eating, obesity
• Food cravings
• Adolescent and women's health
• Health psychology
• Complementary and alternative medicine/integrative medicine (e.g. energy psychology)
• The link between physical illness and psychological factors

BPsychSc (Hons), PhD (Psyc; UQ), MA (Clin. Psyc)

Professional memberships

• Australian Psychological Society
• AHPRA

Research interests

• Autism Spectrum Disorder and its influence on intimate relationships
• ADHD in adulthood
• Adult attachment and intimate relationships
• Mental health outcomes of carers of individuals with dementia
• Social influence processes and perceptions of mental health
• Moral judgment and decision making

BA (Psych) (Flinders), Dip. App. Psych(U.Q.), Ph.D. (U.Q.)

Professional memberships

• Australian Aviation Psychology Association

Research interests

• Acquisition of cognitive skill
• Age related cognitive decline
• Assessment
• Cognitive load
• Healthy ageing
• Memory
• Language and cognition

MSc Dipl.-Psych (University of Oldenburg), PhD (University of Regensburg), MAPS
Assistant Professor

Professional memberships

• Member of the Society for Neuroscience
• Member of the Australasian Society for Cognitive Neuroscience
• Board Member for the journal ‘The Cerebellum’
• Postdoctoral Fellow (University of Oslo)
• Postdoctoral Fellow (University of Glasgow)
• Research Fellow (Queensland Brain Institute)

Research interests

• Cognitive Neuroscience
• Psychophysics
• Spatial Navigation
• Memory
• Multimodal perception
• Alzheimer’s Disease
• Stroke

My doctoral thesis investigated the neural correlates of audio-visual motion perception and the role of the neocerebellum in eye movements.

BSocSc (Psych) (Hons), MPsych(Clin), MAPS
Senior Teaching Fellow, PhD Candidate

Professional memberships

• Australian Psychological Society
• General Registered Psychologist
• APS College of Clinical Psychologists
• ACBS Association for Contextual Behavioural Sciences
• IARR International Association for Relationships Research

Research interests

• Technology use and relationship quality in young adult romantic relationships  
• Love, attraction and adult romantic attachment
• Divorce, separation and adjustment
• Mindfulness and psychological well being
• Maintaining intimacy in long distance relationships