Awards

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2015 Winner of the Macquarie University Research Excellence Award for Higher Degree Research
2016 Peer Review Award - Top Reviewer for Psychology
2017 Peer Review Award - Top Reviewer for Psychology
2017 Winner of the Hugo G. Beigel Research Award for an outstanding first-author paper in the Journal of Sex Research (https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2016.1233315)
2018 Peer Review Award - Top Reviewer for Psychology and Psychiatry
2018 Face of the Future at the 32nd Annual Meeting for the Society for Research in Psychopathology
2018 Association for Psychological Science Rising Star
2019 Peer Review Award - Top Reviewer for Psychology and Psychiatry
2019 Highly Commended for the Macquarie University Early Career Researcher of the Year
2019 Winner of the Early Career Researcher Award from the Faculty of Human Sciences, Macquarie University
2020 Included in the Top 40 Early Achievers in The Australian Research 2020 Magazine (Top 5 in Social Sciences)
2021 Included in the Top 40 Rising Stars of Research in The Australian Research 2021 Special Report (Top 5 in Humanities)
2021 Highly Commended for the Macquarie University Excellence in Research: Five Future-Shaping Research Priorities – Healthy People Award
2022 Winner of the Society for Mental Health Research Early-to-Mid Career Best Research Paper Award for Basic Science (https://doi.org/10.1177/2167702620954799)
2022 Winner of the Macquarie University Lighthouse Program award for Empowerment
2023 Winner of the Australian Association for Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Best Early Career Researcher Oral Presentation Award
2025 Named a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Psychiatry and Psychology
2026 Awarded the American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology in the area of psychopathology, recognising the contributions of my first 9 years post-PhD