Welcome to my homepage at the University of South Australia. I am located at City East Campus, where I am a Research Fellow at the Alliance for Research in Exercise, Nutrition and Activity (ARENA).
My research seeks to identify the healthiest way to spend our time across daily activities such as sleeping, screen time and exercise. Because there are only 24 hours in any day, this involves a balancing act between activities. My work develops novel analytical models that explore how to get the balance right, not only for one aspect of health (e.g., obesity), but for overall health and wellbeing.
I am an NHMRC/Heart Foundation Early Career Research Fellow (2019–2022) and the Treasurer of the International Network of... Read more
About me
Welcome to my homepage at the University of South Australia. I am located at City East Campus, where I am a Research Fellow at the Alliance for Research in Exercise, Nutrition and Activity (ARENA).
My research seeks to identify the healthiest way to spend our time across daily activities such as sleeping, screen time and exercise. Because there are only 24 hours in any day, this involves a balancing act between activities. My work develops novel analytical models that explore how to get the balance right, not only for one aspect of health (e.g., obesity), but for overall health and wellbeing.
I am an NHMRC/Heart Foundation Early Career Research Fellow (2019–2022) and the Treasurer of the International Network of Time-Use Epidemiologists.
About me
Doctor of Philosophy University of South Australia
Bachelor of Physiotherapy with Honours University of South Australia
Research
Excludes commercial-in-confidence projects.
Living your best day- Optimising activity and diet compositions for dementia prevention, NHMRC - Boosting Dementia Research Grants, 01/12/2019 - 31/12/2023
Optimisation of compositional data to inform lifestyle behaviour interventions, NHMRC - Early Career Fellowship, 01/01/2019 - 31/12/2022
Annual rhythms in weight gain, activity and diet compositions in parents – identifying opportunities to prevent cycles of weight gain, NHMRC - Project Grant, 01/01/2019 - 31/12/2021
Research
Research since 2008 is shown below. To see earlier years visit ORCID or Scopus
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7
5
10
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2020 |
5
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2020 |
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7
7
29
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2020 |
Open access
3
3
16
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2020 |
Open access
1
1
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2020 |
1
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2020 |
Open access
3
2
6
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2020 |
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2020 |
Open access
2
1
9
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2019 |
9
7
4
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2019 |
Open access
2
2
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2019 |
Open access
11
12
19
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2019 |
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2
2
9
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2019 |
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2
2
24
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2019 |
1
1
30
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2019 |
Open access
3
3
49
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2019 |
Open access
1
39
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2018 |
Open access
22
24
2
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2018 |
21
17
2
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2018 |
24
23
12
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2018 |
Open access
105
89
17
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2018 |
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28
26
2
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2018 |
Open access
70
47
2
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2018 |
Open access
15
23
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2018 |
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16
15
25
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2018 |
Open access
58
53
43
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2018 |
Open access
10
9
17
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2018 |
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4
5
4
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2018 |
27
24
15
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2018 |
Open access
8
8
1
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2017 |
Open access
49
44
13
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2017 |
18
14
2
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2017 |
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48
44
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2017 |
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36
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2017 |
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2017 |
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7
5
38
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2016 |
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13
11
43
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2016 |
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29
27
29
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Winner: PhD Research Excellence, SA Science Excellence Awards (2019)
Winner: Heart Foundation Paul Korner Innovation Award (2018)
Winner: Inspire PhD Award, UniSA (2018)
External engagement & recognition
Organisation | Country |
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Australian National University | AUSTRALIA |
Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospitals | DENMARK |
Central Queensland University | AUSTRALIA |
Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario | CANADA |
Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute | CANADA |
CSIRO Australia (Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organisation) | AUSTRALIA |
Deakin University | AUSTRALIA |
Department for Education and Child Development | AUSTRALIA |
Dublin City University | IRELAND |
Eastern Ontario Research Institute | CANADA |
Edge Hill University | UNITED KINGDOM |
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health | FINLAND |
Flinders University | AUSTRALIA |
Helsingin Yliopisto | FINLAND |
Jerzy Kukuczka Academy of Physical Education | POLAND |
Liverpool Hope University | UNITED KINGDOM |
Liverpool John Moores University | UNITED KINGDOM |
Mahidol University | THAILAND |
Monash University | AUSTRALIA |
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute | AUSTRALIA |
National Cancer Institute | UNITED STATES |
Oxford University | UNITED KINGDOM |
Palacky University | CZECH REPUBLIC |
Palacký University Olomouc | CZECH REPUBLIC |
Pennington Biomedical Center | UNITED STATES |
Pennington Biomedical Research Center | UNITED STATES |
Queensland Institute of Medical Research | AUSTRALIA |
Shanghai University of Sport | CHINA |
South Australia Department for Education and Child Development | AUSTRALIA |
Swansea University | UNITED KINGDOM |
Syracuse University | UNITED STATES |
The James Hutton Institute | UNITED KINGDOM |
The National Research Center for Work Environment | DENMARK |
Universidad de los Andes | COLOMBIA |
University of Adelaide | AUSTRALIA |
University of Auckland | NEW ZEALAND |
University of Bath | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of Cambridge | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of Cape Town | SOUTH AFRICA |
University of Copenhagen | DENMARK |
University of East Anglia | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of Gävle | SWEDEN |
University of Girona | SPAIN |
University of Helsinki | FINLAND |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | UNITED STATES |
University of Massachusetts Amherst | UNITED STATES |
University of Melbourne | AUSTRALIA |
University of Newcastle | AUSTRALIA |
University of North Carolina at Charlotte | UNITED STATES |
University of Porto | PORTUGAL |
University of Presov | SLOVAK REPUBLIC |
University of Queensland | AUSTRALIA |
University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
University of Southern Denmark | DENMARK |
University of Southern Queensland | AUSTRALIA |
University of Sydney | AUSTRALIA |
University of Tasmania | AUSTRALIA |
University of Technology Sydney | AUSTRALIA |
University of Turku | FINLAND |
University of Victoria | CANADA |
Victoria University | AUSTRALIA |
Vrije University Brussel | BELGIUM |
VU University Medical Center | NETHERLANDS |
External engagement & recognition
Engagement/recognition | Year |
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Early Career FellowshipNational Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) |
2022 |
Early Career FellowshipNational Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) |
2021 |
Early Career FellowshipNational Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) |
2020 |
Keynote Speaker: Compositional Data Analysis of Physical Activity, Sitting and Sleep in Longitudinal StudiesProPASS 3rd Annual Meeting |
2020 |
Most Cited Cross-Sectional PaperInternational Journal of Behavioural Nutrition and Physical Activity |
2020 |
Award for Excellence - Contribution to Time-Use EpidemiologyInternational Network of Time-Use Epidemiologists |
2019 |
Early Career FellowshipNational Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) |
2019 |
Invited PresentationTel Aviv University |
2019 |
Invited PresentationHaifa University |
2019 |
Invited PresentationWingate College, Israel |
2019 |
Maths and Data AwardWinnovation SA |
2019 |
PhD Research Excellence AwardSA Science Excellence Awards |
2019 |
Invited member of scientific committee to update Australia Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour Guidelines Children and Young PeopleAustralian Government |
2018 |
Invited PresentationUniversity of Wollongong |
2018 |
Invited PresentationDepartment of Optimisation and Logistics, University of Adelaide |
2018 |
Invited PresentationMurdoch Children Research Institute, Melbourne |
2018 |
Invited PresentationAuckland University of Technology (AUT), New Zealand |
2018 |
Invited symposium presentationInternational Society of Behavioural Nutrition and Physical Activity (ISBNPA) Annual Meeting, Hong Kong |
2018 |
MemberHealthy Development Adelaide |
2018 |
MemberAlliance for Research in Exercise, Nutrition and Activity (ARENA) |
2018 |
MemberAustralian Physiotherapy Association |
2018 |
MemberInternational Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity |
2018 |
MemberInternational Society of Physical Activity and Health |
2018 |
MemberAllied Health Practitioner Regulation |
2018 |
Paul Korner Innovation AwardNational Heart Foundation |
2018 |
Steering committee member & TreasurerInternational Network of Time-Use Epidemiologists |
2018 |
Early Career Presentation AwardHEPA Europe, Croatia |
2017 |
Invited PresentationHEPA Europe, Croatia |
2017 |
Invited PresentationMathematics Department, Olomouc University, Czech Republic |
2017 |
Invited PresentationMRC Epidemiology, The University of Cambridge |
2017 |
Invited PresentationUniversity of East Anglia |
2017 |
Invited symposium presentationAustralasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society Conference, Adelaide |
2017 |
Winner of Best Poster Award7th international Workshop on Compositional Data analysis (CoDaWork2017), Italy |
2017 |
Invited PresentationMurdoch Children Research Institute, Melbourne |
2016 |
Teaching & student supervision
Supervisions from 2010 shown
Thesis title | Student status |
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Sleep and the health of 10-12 year old Australian children: an investigation of sleep as a multidimensional and compositional construct | Current |
The association between 24-hour time-use composition, cognition and neurophysiological correlates of cognition in older Australians | Current |