Adjunct Researchers
Dr Anthony Chmiel[[link]]
Cognitive Psychology, Music and Wellbeing
Anthony Chmiel is a researcher in music psychology, and the Research Manager for the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Anthony's research has focused on understanding preferences for and emotional responses to music, as well as the mental health, wellbeing, and physical benefits of music across the lifespan.
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Dr Shi Min April Ching
Multisensory Integration
April Ching is a former Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the MARCS Institute who uses EEG to study how people integrate visual and auditory information in language processing.
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Dr Fran Doyle [[link]]
Mental Health & Clinical Psychology
Fran Doyle is a clinical psychologist, researcher, and ARC Discovery Early Career Research Awardee (DECRA) at the School of Psychological Sciences, Macquarie University. Fran research aims to understand the developmental pathways to wellbeing and mental health problems in young people, as well as the important role that parents and children play in each other’s lives.
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Dr Anna Fiveash [[link]]
Cognitive Psychologist
Anna Fiveash is a Junior Professor at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the Universite Bourgogne Europe. Anna researches the similarities and differences between music and language in the brain.
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Dr Sandra Garrido
Music Psychology
Sandra Garrido is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Psychology, University of Sydney. She studies how arts-based interventions can affect our mood, emotions and wellbeing. Her research has provided the evidence for effective programs and tools that use music to improve mood and quality of life for young people with depression and older people with dementia.
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Dr Steffen A. Herff [[link]]
Cognitive Neuroscience of Music
Steffen A. Herff is the leader of the Sydney Music, Mind, and Body Lab at the University of Sydney. He holds a prestigious Sydney Horizon Research Fellowship as well as an ARC DECRA. His research is situated at the intersection between Music, Imagination, Information Sampling, as well as Biofeedback and Neuroscience.
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Dr Ruby Lipson-Smith
Aged Care Environmental Science
Ruby Lipson-Smith is a McKenzie Reserach Fellow in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne. Her research investigates the meaning of home in late life across institutional (hospitals, residential aged care) and community setttings (private homes).
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Dr Jennifer MacRitchie [[link]]
Health and Wellbing Benefits of Music
Jennifer MacRitchie is a Senior Research Fellow at the School of Languages, Arts and Societies at the Univesity of Sheffield. Her research focus is on developing and conducting research with community and industry partners around the health and wellbeing benefits of music.
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Dr Yatin Mahajan [[link]]
Cognitive Neuroscience
Yatin Mahajan is a Senior Research Analyst for the NSW Department of Communities and Justice. His ongoing collaborations explore brain mechanisms underpinning auditory and multisensory processing from developmental and ageing perspectives, using behavioural and electroencephalography (EEG) methods.
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Dr Nigel Nettheim [[link]]
Music Science
Nigel Nettheim had a career in Statistics followed by another one in Musicology. He is the author of "Gutav Becking. How Musical Rhythm Reveals Human Attitudes, An Annotated Translation".
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Dr Sophie Smit [[link]]
Cognitive Neuroscience
Sophie Smit investigates how the brain processes information from the world around us, focusing on the integration of visual and tactile information, which is crucial for aspects like self-perception and social understanding.
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Professor André van Schaik
Neuromorphic Engineering
André van Schaik is an Adjuct Research Professor with the International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems (ICNS). His research focuses on neuromorphic engineering and computational neuroscience.
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