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Dr
Michael
Schmidt
Faculty/Unit:
School of Physics
Research areas:
I am a theoretical particle physicist working in the area of New Physics beyond the Standard Model. My research is focused on neutrino and flavour physics, but I am also working on other areas of new physics beyond the Standard Model including dark matter, phase transitions in the early universe, collider physics and supersymmetry phenomenology.
Keywords:
beyond standard model, dark matter, flavour physics, neutrino masses, neutrino physics, particle physics, phase transitions, physics, supersymmetric standard model, theoretical physics
Dr
J
Bertran-Gonzalez
Faculty/Unit:
School of Psychology
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https://www.neuromodulab.org/Our team has a broad interest in Systems Neuroscience: we are particularly interested in studying how learning is encoded brain circuits, and how new behaviours that did not exist before imprint in neuronal circuits when they are generated, matured and adapted upon changes in environmental rules. We focus our studies on neuromodulatory systems (e.g. dopamine, acetylcholine, neuropeptides) supporting plasticity in subcortical brain networks (striatum, basal ganglia pathways), a central process for generating and modifying voluntary behaviours. We capitalise on animal learning theory, allowing us to design accurate behavioural paradigms that expose very specific forms of learning, and we deploy a series of quantitative fluorescence techniques as well as in vivo approaches to explore neuronal correspondence. Using mice as experimental model, the approach taken includes instrumental conditioning, AAV-based circuit- and cell-specific tracing and manipulation in behaving animals, in vivo photometry and computational analysis of behavioural and neuronal data. We are also interested in studying how these systems fail by modelling certain pathologies in mice such as age-associated motivational decline and behavioural control disorders.
Dr
Philip
Jean-Richard Dit Bressel
Faculty/Unit:
School of Psychology
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My research seeks to uncover the psychology and biology behind how we learn associations between cues in our environment, our behaviour, and outcomes to adaptively change our behaviour.My main area of interest concerns how we learn which of our actions leads to bad outcomes (punishment learning). Understanding how we stop (or fail to stop) doing things that are bad for us is important for understanding and improving the choices we make in our everyday lives. It is also relevant for a number of conditions characterised by dysfunctions in punishment learning, such as substance and behavioural addictions (e.g. drug addiction, gambling disorder), psychopathy (e.g. antisocial personality disorder) and depression.
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Professor
Mike
Letnic
Faculty/Unit:
Biological, Earth & Env Sci
Research areas:
Terrestrial ecology, ecosystem restoration, management of invasive species, predators, fire
Associate Professor
Steven
Most
Faculty/Unit:
School of Psychology
Research areas:
Attention; Emotion; Inattentional blindness; Visual cognition; Cognitive psychology
Associate Professor
Jes
Sammut
Faculty/Unit:
Biological, Earth & Env Sci
Research areas:
Sustainable aquaculture; acid sulfate soils; oyster and shrimp farming; fish kills; fish disease.
Keywords:
aquaculture, capacity building, coastal acid sulfate soils, community development, crustacean, environmental impact assessment, fish, fish feeding, gender, seafood, social impact, spiny lobster aquaculture, stable isotopes, sustainable livelihoods
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Dr
Miriam
Munoz-Rojas
Faculty/Unit:
Biological, Earth & Env Sci
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Associate Professor
Lucette
Cysique
Faculty/Unit:
School of Psychology
Research areas:
The neurocognitive and brain changes associated with HIV infection
Keywords:
aging, cardiovascular diseases, COVID-19, cross-cultural, dti, hiv infection, hiv-associated neurocognitive disorders (hand), longitudinal data, mrs, neuropsychology, structural mri
Dr
Kim
Kiely
Faculty/Unit:
School of Psychology
Keywords:
age-related hearing loss, ageing, cognition disorders, healthy ageing, longitudinal study
Associate Professor
Kristopher
Kilian
Faculty/Unit:
School of Chemistry
Research areas:
stem cell engineering, tissue engineering, model tumour microenvironments, biomaterials, hydrogels