Rob is a Professor and the Deputy Head of The Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences (MSPS), University of Melbourne. Rob’s research utilises fMRI in combination with a number of cognitive tasks to investigate the neural mechanisms of cognitive control (function and dysfunction) in both clinical groups (e.g. drug addiction) and across the lifespan in healthy individuals. His research is funded by both ARC and NHMRC project grants. After completing a PhD in Psychology in 2003 at La Trobe University (Melbourne, Australia), he held two postdoctoral positions, first with Prof. Hugh Garavan at The University of Dublin, Ireland (Trinity College) from 2003-2004, and then with Prof. Jason Mattingley at The University of Melbourne, from 2004-2006 as an ARC postdoctoral fellow. From 2006-2008, Rob was a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Psychology at the Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, before moving to The University of Melbourne as an NHMRC CDA Senior Research Fellow, followed by an ARC Future Fellowship.

Visit http://hesterlab.org/ for more information regarding Prof. Rob Hester and his team of researchers.

Dr. Jacqueline Anderson is a Senior Lecturer in Clinical Neuropsychology in the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences; she is also the Convenor of the School’s Postgraduate Program in Clinical Neuropsychology. As well as undertaking research in the area, she has 20 years of experience working as a Clinical Neuropsychologist in both the public and private health sectors. She is currently Honorary Senior Clinical Neuropsychologist at The Alfred hospital. Dr. Anderson’s research program specialises in abnormal cognitive functioning. She and her lab members use a combination of clinical and laboratory-based tools to investigate adult patient populations with neuropsychological disorders. Her research interests primarily relate to outcome after mild traumatic brain injury and stroke. In particular, she is focused on investigating the neuropsychological (cognitive, behavioural, psychological) and neuropathological aetiologies of individual patient variation in outcome after these events. She has a further specific interest in abnormalities of attention and memory, executive function and subcortical cognitive networks in the context of neuropsychological disorders.   

 

Evelyn Chen is a PhD candidate at The University of Melbourne and is investigating the validity and reliability of tracking cognitive recovery in patients following a mild traumatic brain injury using smartphones. She has been working in research in the Cognitive Neuroimaging Lab, University of Melbourne for the past 6 years. Her previous research involved fMRI studies of inhibitory control and reward systems implicated in addiction. Evelyn is also a clinical neuropsychology registrar working with patients/clients in private and community settings.