Research Leaders

Research Leaders

Professor Patrick McGorry AO
Executive Director
Research Interests:

Psychosis, mood disorders, service reform.

Read more >

Professor Mario Alvarez-Jimenez
Chief of Orygen Digital
Research Interests:

Relapse prevention, psychosocial recovery, online interventions.

Read more >

Professor Andrew Chanen
Chief of Clinical Practice
Research Interests:

Personality disorder, mood disorders, psychotic disorders.

Read more >

Professor Eóin Killackey
Chief of Research and Knowledge Translation
Research Interests:

Psychosocial recovery, functional recovery, service reform.

Read more >

Professor Jo Robinson AM
Head of Suicide Research, Scientific Director - Orygen Policy Centre
Research Interests:

Read more >

Professor Rosemary Purcell
Deputy Chief of Knowledge Translation
Research Interests:

Mental health in elite sport

Read more >

Professor Barnaby Nelson
Head of Early Psychosis: Ultra-high Risk Research
Research Interests:

Ultra-high risk for psychosis, prediction research, psychopathology and phenomenology, psychotherapy for psychosis

Read more >

Professor Eric Chen
Professorial Fellow, First Episode Psychosis Research
Research Interests:

Read more >

Professor Paul Amminger
Professorial Research Fellow
Research Interests:

Neurobiology, neuroprotection, low-risk interventions, ultra high risk for psychosis.

Read more >

Professor Sarah Whittle
Head of Neurodevelopmental Research
Research Interests:

Brain development, depression, anxiety, adverse childhood experiences, parenting, puberty

Read more >

Professor Lianne Schmaal
Head, Mood and Anxiety Disorders Research
Research Interests:

Depression, anxiety, suicide, mechanisms, machine learning, early intervention, novel treatments

Read more >

Professor Andrew Thompson
Head of Psychosis Research, Head of Virtual Reality Research
Research Interests:

First episode psychosis, ultra-high risk and psychotic-like experiences, virtual reality and virtual worlds, clinical quality registries, clinical trials and translation networks.

Read more >

Professor Lucia Valmaggia
Head of Orygen Digital XR Innovation Lab, Co-Lead of XR Research
Research Interests:

Immersive reality for mental health, cognitive behaviour therapy, psychological interventions for young people in the criminal justice system

Read more >

Professor Kelly Allott
Head of Cognition Research
Research Interests:

Psychosis, depression, cognition, neuropsychology, functional recovery, early intervention

Read more >

Associate Professor Gillinder Bedi
Head of Substance Use Research
Research Interests:

Drug and alcohol use, substance use disorders

Read more >

Professor Sarah Bendall
Head, Trauma and Youth Mental Health
Research Interests:

Trauma-informed care, trauma, psychosis, post-traumatic stress disorder, psychotherapy, models of service delivery

Read more >

Associate Professor Andrea Phillipou
Head of Eating Disorders Research
Research Interests:

Eating disorders, anorexia nervosa, biopsychosocial, aetiology, prevention, treatment

Read more >

Associate Professor Magenta Simmons
Head of Youth and Family Involvement Research
Research Interests:

Shared decision making, peer support, lived experience workforce, youth partnerships in research, participatory research methodologies, vocational recovery

Read more >

Emeritus Professor Helen Herrman AO
Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry
Research Interests:

Vulnerable and disengaged youth, community mental health, mental health promotion.

Read more >

Associate Professor Dominic Dwyer
Associate Professor, Clinical Staging
Research Interests:

Read more >

Associate Professor Caroline Gao
Associate Professor, Data Science and Analytical Methods
Research Interests:

Data science and analytical methods

Read more >

Dr Isabel Zbukvic
Head of Implementation Science
Research Interests:

Read more >

Associate Professor Zac Seidler
Research Interests:

Men’s mental health; masculinity; gender responsive healthcare; domestic violence; social media use; suicide

Read more >

Associate Professor Kate Filia
Co-Head of Social and Functional Recovery Research
Research Interests:

Social determinants of health, functioning, health equity, health services research

Read more >

Associate Professor Vanessa Cropley
Associate Professor
Research Interests:

Psychosis, clinical high-risk psychosis, brain maturation, neurobiology, sleep and circadian rhythms, trauma

Read more >