I completed my undergraduate studies at the University of Melbourne, before moving to the University of New South Wales to work on my PhD. After several years studying the role of the orexin system in appetitive motivation and addiction, I commenced a postdoc at Concordia University in Montreal, where I worked on the role of glutamate in processing appetitive cues. I am currently studying cocaine addiction at the Université de Montréal. I independently study author choice and academic publishing behaviour and founded a non-profit academic community publisher to provide free open access publishing for neuroscientists.
Experience
2019–present
Postdoctoral fellow, Université de Montréal
2017–2019
Postdoctoral fellow, Concordia University
Education
2017
University of New South Wales, Doctor of Philosophy (Psychology)
2012
University of Melbourne, Bachelor of Science (Honours)
2011
University of Melbourne, Bachelor of Arts
Publications
2019
Journal of Psychopharmacology, The medial prefrontal cortex is required for responding to alcohol-predictive cues but only in the absence of alcohol delivery
2019
Neuroscience of Nicotine: Mechanisms and Treatment, The orexin system and nicotine addiction: Preclinical insights
2019
LIBER Quarterly, Article processing charge hyperinflation and price insensitivity: An open access sequel to the serials crisis
2019
Student Success, Transitions and choices: Graduate student mentoring for psychology honours students
2019
Neuropsychopharmacology, Context and topography determine the role of basolateral amygdala metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 in appetitive Pavlovian responding
2018
Laboratory Animals, Local anaesthetic refinement of pentobarbital euthanasia reduces abdominal writhing without affecting immunohistochemical endpoints in rats
2018
Progress in Neuropsychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry, Palatable food self-administration and reinstatement are not affected by dual orexin receptor antagonism
2018
LIBER Quarterly, A very long embargo: Journal choice reveals active non-compliance with funder open access policies by Australian and Canadian neuroscientists
2018
Animals, Justifiability and animal research in health: Can democratisation help resolve difficulties?
2017
Genes, Brain & Behavior, How contexts promote and prevent relapse to drug seeking
2017
PLoS ONE, The dual orexin receptor antagonist TCS1102 does not affect reinstatement of nicotine-seeking
2016
Addiction Biology, Orexin-1 receptor signalling in the prelimbic cortex and ventral tegmental area regulates cue-induced reinstatement of ethanol-seeking in iP rats
2015
The Journal of Neuroscience, Multiple properties of drug-paired cues may precipitate reinstatement
2014
CNS Drugs, Orexin/hypocretin based pharmacotherapies for the treatment of addiction: DORA or SORA?
2013
The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, Central orexin (hypocretin) 2 receptor antagonism reduces ethanol self-administration, but not cue-conditioned ethanol-seeking, in ethanol-preferring rats