Curriculum Vitae

Education

2013 PhD Psychology (Exceptional Thesis Award). University of Otago, New Zealand.
2012 Post Graduate Diploma in Clinical Psychology. University of Otago, New Zealand.
2004 Bachelor of Science with Honors (Hons I) Psychology. University of Otago, New Zealand.
2003 Bachelor of Commerce, Marketing. University of Otago, New Zealand.

Employment History

2018 - Present Academic Mental Health & Well-being Consultant @ Desiree Dickerson PhD Valencia, Spain
2012 - 2014 Postdoctoral Researcher Csicsvari Group Institute of Science and Technology (IST) Austria
2012 Clinical Psychologist Intern Child & Family Mental Health Service. Dunedin, New Zealand
2011 Clinical Psychologist Intern Inpatient Rehabilitation Centre, Wakari Hospital. Dunedin, New Zealand
2008 - 2011 Teaching Assistant Dept. of Psychology, University of Otago, New Zealand
2007 - 2008 Research Assistant Dept. of Psychology, University of Otago, New Zealand
2005 - 2006 Research Coordinator   Em.Prof Humphreys & Prof. Nancy Pachana School of Psychology, Univ. of Queensland.

Awards & Prizes

2013 PhD Exceptional Thesis Award
2012 Claude McCarthy Fellowship
2011 Maurice & Phyllis Paykel Trust Travel Scholarship
2011 New Zealand Federation for Graduate Women Travel Award
2008 University of Otago Postgraduate Scholarship
2003 University of Otago Scholarship in Science
2003 Otago Medical Research Foundation Summer Scholarship

Training & Courses

2012 FENS-IBRO Winter School in Brain Dynamics Obergurgl, Austria
2010 Statistical Modelling for Research Dept. of Statistics, Univ. of Otago, New Zealand
2010 EEGLAB Meeting San Diego Supercomputer Centre, San Diego, US
2010 A Practical & Theoretical Introduction to fMRI Utrecht, The Netherlands
2010 Hierarchical Modelling Workshop University of Otago, New Zealand
2010 Multivariate Statistics Workshop University of Otago, New Zealand

Opinion Pieces

Dickerson, DD. (2020). Overcoming perfectionism during the pandemic. Nature. 16 July.
Dickerson, DD. (2020). Seven tips to manage your mental health and well-being during the COVID-19 outbreak. Nature.
Dickerson, DD. (2019). I wish I’d taken my mental health more seriously in grad school. Science, 367(6473)
Dickerson, DD. (2019). How I overcame imposter syndrome after leaving academia. Nature, 574 (7777).

Scientific Publications

Kaefer K, Malagon-Vina H, Dickerson DD, O’Neill J, Trossbach SV, Korth C, & Csicsvari J. (2019). Disrupted-in-schizophrenia 1 overexpression disrupts hippocampal coding and oscillatory synchronisation. Hippocampus, doi: 10.1002/hipo.23076.
Dickerson DD, Overeem KA, Wolff AR, Williams JM, Abraham WC, & Bilkey DK. (2014). Association of aberrant neural synchrony and altered GAD67 expression following exposure to maternal immune activation, a risk factor for schizophrenia. Translational Psychiatry, 4 e418.
Dickerson DD & Bilkey DK. (2013). Aberrant neural synchrony in the maternal immune activation model: using translatable measures to explore targeted interventions. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 7, 217-
Dickerson DD, Restieaux AM, & Bilkey DK .(2012). Clozapine administration ameliorates disrupted long-range synchrony in a neurodevelopmental animal model of schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 135 (1-3), 112-115.
Dickerson DD. (2011). Baby Blues. Australian Science, July/August, 34-36 (Invited Publication).
Dickerson DD, Wolff AR, & Bilkey DK. (2010). Abnormal long-range synchrony in a maternal immune activation model of schizophrenia. Journal of Neuroscience, 30(37), 12424-12431.

Invited Talks

Dickerson DD. (2021). Nikolaus Lecture keynote: Mental health in Science Careers. Berlin-Brandenburg School for Regenerative Therapies. Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany.
Dickerson DD. (2019). Mental Models. EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne), Switzerland.
Dickerson DD. (2018). Ageing SMART: The science of good brain health and well-being. Canterbury Dementia, Christchurch. New Zealand
Dickerson DD. (2011). Exploring abnormal neural synchrony in schizophrenia through an environmental animal model. Institute for Neurophysiology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany.
Dickerson DD. (2011). Exploring abnormal neural synchrony in schizophrenia through an environmental animal model. Max Plank Institute for Brain Research. Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Dickerson DD. (2011). Exploring abnormal neural synchrony in schizophrenia through an environmental animal model. IST Austria. Klosterneuburg, Austria.