Lab members
We are an interdisciplinary team comprising people with diverse backgrounds in psychology, physics, engineering, medicine, and biology. We work together and learn from each other in our efforts to understand the brain.
 | Sean P.A. Drummond Email: sean.drummond@monash.edu Sleep, sleep deprivation, mental health, cognition, insomnia, PTSD, consumer sleep trackers. |
| PhD Students | |
 | Vivien Vuong Email: vivien.vuong@monash.edu PTSD, trauma, mental health, insomnia, sleep, fear conditioning, extinction, safety learning, sex differences |
| Jessica Ogden Sleep, trauma, sleep disturbance, intrusive memories, PTSD, mental health |
| Postgraduate students | |
| Lawra Alkalame Email: lawra.alkalame@monash.edu Sleep, sleep deprivation, trauma, PTSD, intrusive memories |
| Recent Graduates & Alumni (and their roles when they were in the lab) | |
| Dr Alix Mellor Email: alix.mellor@monash.edu Sleep, sleep disorders, psychological conditions, mental health, insomnia, actigraphy |
| Dr Eleni Kavaliotis Email: eleni.kavaliotis@monash.edu Learning, conditioning, sleep, sleep disturbance, psychological disorders, mental health, insomnia, eating disorders, addiction, PTSD |
| Jeryl Lim |
| Dr Elliot Brooker Email: elliot.brooker@monash.edu Sleep disorders, mental health, Insomnia, CBT-I, obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) pathogenesis, actigraphy, bi-directionality of insomnia and OSA |
| July Lies Email: july.lies@monash.edu Sleep disturbance, PTSD, mental health, pre-sleep arousal, trauma population, refugees. |
| Dr Elizabeth Walters Sleep, insomnia, improving effectiveness and accessibility of mental health care |
| Dr Elissa Pasula Sleep and cognition, healthy and ageing populations, neurodegenerative disorders |
| Dr Johanna Boardman Email: johanna.boardman@monash.edu Sleep deprivation, cognition, performance monitoring, error-monitoring |
| Dr Alexander Wolkow Email: alexander.wolkow@monash.edu Sleep, sleep disorders, mental health, stress, PTSD, shift work, sleep restriction, occupational settings, physical health, emergency services, burnout ORCiD | ResearchGate | Google Scholar Twitter: @wolkow_research |
| Hollie Wright Email: hollie.wright@monash.edu Sleep, insomnia, mental health, online interventions |
| Eliza Costin Email: eliza.costin@monash.edu |
| David Litewka Email: david.litewka@monash.edu Sleep, sleep scoring, sleep disruption, insomnia, circadian misalignment, CPAP titration, O2 titration |
| Courtney Anthonisz Industry Based Learning intern, 2019 |
| Kellie Hamill Email: kellie.hamill@monash.edu Sleep, insomnia, mental health, consumer sleep trackers, actigraphy, validation, sleep disruption, nutrition ORCiD | ResearchGate | LinkedIn Twitter: @Kellie_l_Hamill |
| Michelle Bravo Email: michelle.bravo@monash.edu Sleep, sleep disruption, cognitive task development, physiological modelling |
| Dr Jacob Clark Email: jacob.clark@monash.edu PTSD, sex differences, circadian disruption, sleep architecture, orexin, hypnotic therapy, fear conditioning, fear extinction, safety learning. |
| Kiandra Tomlinson Email: kiandra.tomlinson@monash.edu Co-sleeping, sleep deprivation, benzodiazepines, addiction, PTSD, mental health, cognition |
| Gabriel Abdelmessih Email: gabriel.abdelmessih@monash.edu |
| Janani Rajaram |
| Marie Leyssens Sleep, mental health, PTSD, addiction, circadian disruption, physiology and pharmacology, hormonal health, stress reactivity, consciousness, dreams, neural correlates of sleep |
