Adjunct Researchers

Dr. Anthony Chmiel is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in cognitive psychology, music, and wellbeing. At MARCS he is working on the ARC Discovery Project "Maintaining active minds and bodies through older adult music education" with Prof. Roger Dean, Dr. Jennifer MacRitchie, and Prof. Kate Stevens. Anthony also works on the MoodyTunes app for mental health, and the Music For Dementia website.

Dr Frances Doyle. [[link]]

Dr Frances Doyle is a clinical psychologist and researcher. Frances has published peer-reviewedacademic articles on child, adolescent, and family psychology, and presented at national and international conferences.

Dr Anna Fiveash. [[link]]

Dr Anna Fiveash is an ARC DECRA fellow. In her DECRA project, Anna uses the communicative domains of music and speech to better understand how the brain makes predictions for upcoming information, both in terms of content and timing.

Dr Steffen A. Herff [[link]]

Dr. Steffen A. Herff is a cognitive neuroscientist and the leader of the Sydney Music, Mind, and Body Lab. 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.

Associate Professor Mayruresh Korgaonkar [[link]]

Associate Professor Mayuresh Korgaonkar is a NHMRC Career Development Research Fellow, the Director of Brain Dynamics Centre at the Westmead Institute for Medical Research, and Senior Research Fellow at the Sydney Medical School. He has a strong interest and expertise in developing magnetic resonance imaging techniques and analyses in application to psychiatric and neurological disorders.

Dr Christa Lam-Cassettari

Christa Lam-Cassettari is a Senior Research Associate in the School of Psychiatry, UNSW, Academic Unit of Child Psychiatry South West Sydney (AUCS), and Clinical Trial Coordinator for an NHMRC funded partnerships project awarded to Professor Valsamma Eapen and colleagues entitled Watch Me Grow Integrated Approach – WMG-I: Changing practice to improve universal child health and developmental surveillance in the primary care setting.

Dr Jennifer MacRitchie. [[link]]

Dr Jennifer MacRitchie is a Senior Research Fellow in Health and Wellbeing in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts and a member of MARCS Music Cognition and Action program. Her research focus is on developing and conducting research with community and industry partners around the health and wellbeing benefits of music.

Dr Yatin Mahajan. [[link]]

Dr Yatin explores brain/neural mechanisms underpinning auditory and multisensory processing from developmental and ageing perspectives. He uses neurophysiological methods such as Electroencephalography (EEG), behavioural and objective cognitive measures to investigate his research goals.

Dr Nigel Nettheim. [[link]]

Dr Nigel Nettheim is an adjunct researcher in our Music Science group. In 2011, his book entitled "How Musical Rhythm Reveals Human Attitudes, An Annotated Translation by Nigel Nettheim" was published.

Dr Sophie Smit. [[link]]

Dr 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.

Professor André van Schaik.

Professor 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.