Our people
The Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre brings together an outstanding team of research active clinical academics, clinicians and scientists from various disciplines, as well as professional staff, to advance knowledge and treatment of neuropsychiatric conditions
Leadership
Academic Staff
Rebecca Cooper Foundation Al and Val Rosenstrauss Fellow
Laboratory Head - Mood - Psychosis Spectrum Group
Research Fellow Laboratory Co-Head - Systems Group
Dr Sandra Luza
Research Fellow
Psychosis Studies
Professional Staff
Rebekah Delahoy
Research Assistant
Depression & Anxiety
Alicia Stevens
Research Assistant
Neurobiology Group
Dr James Karantonis
Lab Manager
Mood - Psychosis
Spectrum Group
Olivia Durbin
Research Assistant
Social & Affective Neurodevelopment
Barbara Stachlewski
Administrative Assistant
Chester Kang
IT Lab Manager and Analyst
Antonia Merritt
MNC Research Trial Coordinator
Students
Sarah Manuele
PhD Candidate
Social & Affective Neurodevelopment
Early Family Interventions: An Investigation into Mother, Father and Family Factors, and their Impact on Adolescent Development and Internalizing Outcomes.
Georgia Caruana
PhD Candidate
Mood - Psychosis Spectrum Group
Isabel Zwaan
PhD Candidate
Social & Affective Neurodevelopment
Thesis Title TBA
Rebecca Cooper
PhD Candidate
Neurobiology Group
Characterisation of longitudinal relationships between adolescent sleep, psychopathology and brain development
Kavisha Fernando
PhD Candidate
Systems Group
Personalising Deep Brain Stimulation for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder through Brain Imaging and Phenomeonology
Junxuan Zhao
Masters Student
Social & Affective Neurodevelopment
The effectiveness of an emotion-focussed parenting intervention on improving parent emotion socialisation and adolescents’ emotion regulation
Sylvia Lin
PhD Candidate
Social & Affective Neurodevelopment
The causal impact of parental emotion socialisation on adolescent emotion regulation neurobiology: a randomised controlled fMRI study
Muskan Khetan
PhD Candidate
Social & Affective Neurodevelopment
Understanding role of pubertal hormones in shaping the neurobiology of emotional regulation
Reuben Dyer
PhD Candidate
Mood - Psychosis Spectrum Group
Investigating emotional and eye movement correlates of inhibitory control in bipolar disorder
Lucy Zhang
PhD Candidate
Social & Affective Neurodevelopment
Understanding Resilience During Adolescence: Protective Factors, Underlying Mechanism, and Development Across Time
Hua Ye
PhD Candidate
Systems Group
Thesis Title TBA
Ulysse Thivisol
PhD Candidate
Psychosis Studies
Normal and Perturbed Trajectories of Adolescent Brain Development: Characterising Protein Changes in the Mouse Hippocampus
James Agathos
PhD Candidate
Depression & Anxiety
Neural underpinnings of cognitive restructuring of negative self-beliefs and associations with psychopathology
Christine Leonard
PhD Candidate
Depression & Anxiety
Thesis Title TBA
Hadis Jameei
PhD Candidate
Systems Group
Thesis Title TBA
Megan Thomas
PhD Candidate
Neurobiology Group
Thesis Title TBA
Yoshito Saito
PhD Candidate
Psychosis Studies
Saampras Ganesan
PhD Candidate
Systems Group
Stephanie Hartanto
PhD Candidate
Social & Affective Neurodevelopment
Thesis Title TBA
Alfred Pak-Kwan Lo
PhD Candidate
Depression & Anxiety
The interplay of trauma and cognitive functioning in somatization: A diathesis-stress account