Greg Murray

Professor Greg Murray conducts research into mood disorders, circadian rhythms, and personality. He is ranked in the top 1% of researchers worldwide in each of these fields, and is recognised as a world expert in bipolar disorders (top 0.1%, Expertscape.com). After a first career in music, he took out his PhD from University of Melbourne in 2001, and was promoted to full Professor at Swinburne in 2011. 

Professor Murray's > 230 journal articles are cited > 1000 times a year, and he has been Chief Investigator on > $31 million in national competitive research funding. Professor Murray has received individual awards for research, teaching, and community impact, supervised 22 Doctorate students, and provided professional development training for hundreds of psychologists and psychiatrists. He is a registered clinical psychologist, and was elected a Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society (APS) in 2013. 

Professor Murray’s work has had significant community impact. He was the sole non-US contributor to the bipolar disorders chapter of DSM-5-TR (American Psychiatric Association). He is final author on the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists Mood Disorder Guidelines (2020) and wrote the APS guidelines for treating bipolar disorder. His public engagement includes regular mental health segments on ABC Radio and frequent school talks on sleep health. His articles for The Conversation have generated 1.3 million reads. 

Professor Murray has played numerous leadership roles, including Director of the University of Melbourne Psychology Clinic, Chair of the Department of Psychological Sciences at Swinburne, Chair of Hawthorn headspace, Director of Swinburne's Centre for Mental Health, and Chair of Orygen Research Review Committee. He is currently Director of Mood Disorder Science and Practice at Swinburne. 

Professor Murray also has a long list of career disappointments, rejections and blunders (available on request).