Meet the scientists visiting your school

Amal is a sleep scientist at RMIT University and a medical doctor in the Victorian health system. She is co-chair of the Respiratory Council in the Australasian Sleep Association. Her research focus is on sleep health and its contribution to our everyday health, well-being and disease.

Anum is pursuing a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in the field of Psychology at the Australian Catholic University, with a focus on promoting physical activity among school-aged children to improve their overall health.

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Carla is a PhD student researching how to make broad-spectrum vaccines against nasty respiratory bugs. She has worked on a variety of STEM projects in areas of biochemistry, microbiology, immunology and science communication.

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Elisabetta is a PhD Candidate from Macquarie University, Australia and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Germany. She is researching how skilled readers across languages process sublexical units such as letters and syllables, to understand how different linguistic backgrounds change reading mechanisms in the mind.

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Grace is a PhD candidate at the University of Western Australia studying the effects of man-made noise on animal behaviour. Grace is curious as to how cognition can aid animals to cope with their ever-changing environment.

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Kip is a psychology researcher at UNSW and is currently undergoing training as a clinical psychologist at UWS.

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Mark is a research scientist at the University of Sydney using infrared eye tracking to look at whether oxytocin can promote eye contact and reduce anxiety in challenging social situations.

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Priyadharshany is a provisional psychologist and clinical psychology PhD candidate at Flinders University. She is interested in trauma and PTSD intervention. Her research is evaluating a new guided self-help program to treat posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in adults.

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