Lab members

 

Associate Professor Clare Anderson
Psychology, Academic Lead

Optimizing human health, safety and performance through improving sleep and circadian outcomes, with a particular focus on the development and application of novel biomarkers and technologies.

Email: clare.anderson@monash.edu

Dr Jessica Manousakis
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

Impact of sleep disruption and circadian rhythms on cognition and performance across the lifespan, and the development of ocular biomarkers of sleep disruption.

Email: jessica.manousakis@monash.edu

Dr Katy Jeppe
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

Developing sleep and circadian biomarkers of health and performance to improve wellbeing and reduce risk.

Email: katy.jeppe@monash.edu

Dr Charmaine Diep
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

Acoustic stimulation of slow wave sleep, and its effects on attention, executive function and cardiac outcomes.

Email: charmaine.diep@monash.edu

Anna Cai
PhD (Research) Graduate Student

The impact of age on drowsy driving: effects on subjective ratings of sleepiness, physiological outcomes and crash risk.

Email: anna.cai@monash.edu

Elly Francis-Pester
PhD (Research) Graduate Student

Task-dependent and age-dependent effects of sleep deprivation.

Email: elly.francis-pester@monash.edu

Tiffany Lo
PhD (Clinical) Graduate Student

The role of sleep and cognition on safe driving outcomes in older adults with and without dementia.

Email: tiffany.lo@monash.edu

William Taylor
PhD (Research) Graduate Student

Prediction of drowsy driving – understanding individual differences to combat drowsy driving.

Email: william.taylor@monash.edu

 

Eliza Ward
Honours Student

The effect of age on the timing and strength of the wake maintenance zone.

 

Emma White
Honours Student

The accuracy of subjective ratings of driving performance following sleep loss.

 

Mariah Beanland
Honours Student

The role of sleep and cognition in driver performance in healthy older adults.

Previous lab members and trainees
 

Dr Suzanne Ftouni
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow 2015-2018

 

Dr Leilah Grant
PhD (Research) 2014-2018

 

Dr William McMahon
PhD (Research) 2015-2019

 

Dr Jinny Collet
PhD (Research) 2016-2020