I am a neuroscientist interested in human movement and cognition, based at the Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health. I am an Associate Professor in the School of Psychological Sciences at Monash University, Melbourne Australia.

My undergraduate training was in Exercise Science at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. I was awarded a PhD in Human Movement Neuroscience in 2007, supervised by Professor Winston Byblow and Professor Cathy Stinear. From 2008 to 2012 I worked with Emeritus Professor Stephan Swinnen and Professor Nicole Wenderoth in the Faculty of Movement and Rehabilitation Sciences at KU Leuven, Belgium. I was awarded Postdoctoral Research Fellowships from the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) and Centre for Brain Research, before establishing my lab at Monash in 2015.

The Movement and Exercise Neuroscience Laboratory at Monash University (MEXlab) seeks to better understand how cardiorespiratory exercise impacts brain plasticity, learning, and cognition. Our research is multidisciplinary, spanning the domains of exercise physiology, movement neurophysiology, and cognitive neuroscience. We use non-invasive brain stimulation and recording techniques (EEG and MRI) to gain insight into the neural control of human movement.

The goal of our research on exercise and the brain is to develop an evidence-base for exercise interventions that promote healthy brain ageing and help people living with neurological disease better manage their symptoms.