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Susan Rossell

Professor and Director, Clinical Trials

School of Health Sciences

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  • Professor and Director, Clinical Trials
    School of Health Sciences
  • +61 3 9214 8173 (Work)

BIO

Professor Susan Rossell is a cognitive neuropsychologist and Professorial Research Fellow at Swinburne’s Centre for Mental Health. She also holds an adjunct position at St Vincent's Health. 

Professor Rossell’s research focuses on understanding the cognitive and neurobiological processes involved in psychosis and related disorders. She has published extensively and received both the International and European award for Young Investigator into Schizophrenia Research.

Prior to coming to Australia, Professor Rossell studied at the University of Manchester, the Institute of Psychiatry (part of King's College London) and Oxford University. She gained extensive experience in neuroimaging while undertaking a position at London’s world-renowned Functional Imaging Lab. In 2000 Professor Rossell was awarded a prestigious International Wellcome Post-doctoral Fellowship during which she spent time at Macquarie University. Before joining Swinburne, she also held roles as Head of the Cognitive Neuropsychiatry Department at the Mental Health Research Institute of Victoria and at Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre.

DEGREES

  • BSc (Hons) Psychology and Neuroscience
    University of Manchester, United Kingdom
  • PhD (Cognitive Neuropsychiatry)
    Kings College London, United Kingdom

SUPERVISION AVAILABILITY

  • Available to supervise Doctorate (PhD)

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

  • 3 Good Health and Well Being

FIELDS OF RESEARCH