Chief Investigators

Sharon Naismith

University of Sydney

Sharon holds the Leonard P Ullman Chair in Psychology and heads the Healthy Brain Ageing Program at the Brain and Mind Research Institute, the University of Sydney.

Ron Grunstein

Macquarie University

Ron is an NHMRC Leadership Investigator, Sleep and Circadian Group, Woolcock Institute of Medical Research, and Senior Specialist Physician, RPAH.

Ralph Martins

Macquarie University

Ralph is a Professor of Neurobiology at Macquarie University and the Foundation Chair of Ageing and Alzheimer’s disease at Edith Cowan University.

Christopher Gordon

Macquarie University

Christopher is the Research Leader of the Insomnia and Chronobiology program in the Sleep and Circadian Research Group at the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research.

Sharon Naismith

University of Sydney

Sharon holds the Leonard P Ullman Chair in Psychology and heads the Healthy Brain Ageing Program at the Brain and Mind Research Institute, the University of Sydney.

Ron Grunstein

Macquarie University

Ron is an NHMRC Leadership Investigator, Sleep and Circadian Group, Woolcock Institute of Medical Research, and Senior Specialist Physician, RPAH.

Ralph Martins

Macquarie University

Ralph is a Professor of Neurobiology at Macquarie University and the Foundation Chair of Ageing and Alzheimer’s disease at Edith Cowan University.

Christopher Gordon

Macquarie University

Christopher is the Research Leader of the Insomnia and Chronobiology program in the Sleep and Circadian Research Group at the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research.

Camilla Hoyos

Macquarie University

Camilla is an NHMRC-ARC Dementia Research Fellow at Macquarie University. She currently holds a National Heart Foundation Future Leader Fellowship.

Angela D’Rozario

Macquarie University

Angela established and heads the Facility for High-density EEG Sleep Investigation and the Sleep Neurobiology Research Theme at the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research.

Stephanie Rainey-Smith

Murdoch University

Stephanie is an NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow, and leads the Lifestyle Approaches Towards Cognitive Health (LATCH) Research Group.

Clare Anderson

University of Birmingham

Clare is an Associate Professor at the Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health at Monash University, and leads the Applied Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Laboratory.

James “Mac” Shine

University of Sydney

Mac is a Robinson Fellow, NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow, and Bellberry-Viertel Fellow at the Brain and Mind Centre at the University of Sydney.

Pierrick Bourgeat

CSIRO

Pierrick is a Senior Researcher within the Australian eHealth Centre at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation.

Associate Investigators

Elizabeth Coulson

University of Queensland

Elizabeth leads the Neurotrophins in Alzheimer’s disease group and is a group leader in Dementia Research at the Clem Jones Centre for Ageing Dementia Research.

Diana Trickett

University of Sydney

Diana is a consumer advocate in the Rehabilitation and Aged Care Network, Northern Sydney Local Health District.

Rick Wassing

Woolcock Institute of Medical Research Limited

Rick is a postdoctoral fellow and a part of the Sleep and Circadian research group at the Woolcock Institute.

Jurgen Fripp

CSIRO

Jurgen leads the Biomedical Informatics Group and the Image Analysis Team at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation.

Sveta Postnova

University of Sydney

Sveta leads the Chronophysics Group in the School of Physics and is a senior lecturer in Neurophysics and Brain Dynamics.

Stephanie Ward

University of New South Wales

Stephanie is a geriatrician and the Clinical Lead of the NHMRC funded Australian Dementia Network Clinical Quality registry.

Elie Matar

University of Sydney

Elie is a Consultant Neurologist, Sleep Physician, an NHMRC Investigator Fellow, and a Clinical and Research Fellow at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery,

Craig Phillips

Macquarie University

Craig is an NHMRC research fellow at the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research.

Laura Jacobson

The Florey

Laura is the head of the Sleep and Cognition Group at The Florey and an Honorary Principal Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics.