Melissa Ngo is a second-year PhD candidate and is broadly looking at different aspects of multitasking performance across simulated sustained operations.

Jake is a third-year PhD student in the Behaviour-Brain-Body Research Centre at the University of South Australia.

Final-year PhD Candidate in the Behaviour-Brain-Body Research Centre at the University of South Australia, researching the impacts of fatigue on individual and team performance.

Dr. Crystal Yates’s research delves into the effects of sleep loss and circadian misalignment (disruptions to the body’s natural rhythms) on shift workers. Her work specifically examines how sleeping at non-standard times impacts workers’ metabolism, nutrition and cognitive performance. Dr. Yates’s recent work investigates the impact of forced disaggregation during sustained operations in military settings on alertness and self-reported sleepiness. This research highlights the unique challenges faced by teams working in distributed and co-located environments and explores potential strategies for maintaining team effectiveness under such conditions including the use of novel technologies.

Dr Meagan Crowther is a postdoctoral research fellow at the School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University. Meagan's research focuses on the intersection between sleep, wellbeing and health. In particular Meagan's work aims to understand and improve inadequate sleep in those who are vulnerable to sleep loss (e.g., shift workers, new parents). Meagan is also a strong advocate for Early Career Researchers as the co-chair of the Australasian Sleep Association Network of Early Career Sleep Researchers in Training and chair of the Monash School of Psychological Sciences Early Career Researcher Committee.

Azka Fatima holds a background in public health and is currently a PhD candidate at the Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania. Her doctoral research focuses on describing variations in sleep characteristics across the life course—from childhood to young and mid-adulthood—and investigating their associations with obesity and cardiometabolic health outcomes.

Barbara is a Research Professor in the Dept of Paediatrics & Child Health (University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand). She is a physiologist by training, developing a specialised interest in paediatric sleep through her early research in Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy. She has published widely in the area of sleep measurement and sleep problems in children and related health outcomes spanning age ranges from infancy through to adolescence. Her current research interests are in teen sleep and across all paediatric age groups, the sleep-screen connection.