Professor Stephen Robinson
Details
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Department: Health and Biomedical Sciences
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Campus: Bundoora West Australia
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stephen.robinson@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID:
0000-0002-0987-0075
About
A B.Sc. from Adelaide University and a PhD from the University of New South Wales. Stephen has been a neuroscientist for the past four decades, with expertise encompassing aspects of biochemistry, anatomy, physiology and psychology. He has published influential research on factors that impair cognitive performance, including Alzheimer's disease, obstructive sleep apnea, inflammatory bowel diseases and whole-body vibration.
Professor Robinson has served in numerous senior leadership roles, including Head of Psychology at two of Australia's top universities, Monash University and RMIT. He was a pro bono director of the Brain Foundation (2006-2022), a not-for-profit organization that funds 'blue sky' neuroscience research. He established and is a director of NeuroTest Pty. Ltd (2013-present), a spinoff tech company that markets a sensitive online test of cognitive performance. By December 2025 his 190 papers had been cited more than 50,000 times and include first-author publications in Nature and Science. As a member of the Global Burden of Disease consortium, he has authored 16 papers in The Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine. Based on his citation record, Stephen is ranked among the top 0.4% of scientists worldwide.
Research fields
- 3209 Neurosciences
- 5202 Biological psychology
- 3202 Clinical sciences
- 3101 Biochemistry and cell biology
- 3201 Cardiovascular medicine and haematology
- 4206 Public health
- 3208 Medical physiology
- 3214 Pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences
- 3109 Zoology
- 3212 Ophthalmology and optometry
Supervisor projects
- Vibration Cue to Reduce Motion Sickness in Different Non-Driving-Related Tasks
- 18 Nov 2025
- The Influence of Seat Orientation and Vibrotactile on Motion Sickness
- 24 May 2024
- Development of A System to Control Vehicle Driver/Occupant Emotion
- 29 Feb 2024
- Individual Differences in Executive Function & Change Detection
- 1 Dec 2021
- Metrics, Attentional Control and Haptic Intervention During Takeover in Conditionally Automated Driving
- 22 Jun 2021
- Actinic Keratoses and Herbal Medicine Interventions
- 26 Nov 2019
- Characterisation of the Driver Drowsiness Induced by Vibration
- 7 Aug 2019
- Recovery from Penetrating Brain Injury in Adult Spiny Mice and C57BL/6 Mice: A Quantitative Comparison
- 12 Mar 2019
- Development of a Method to Restore Driver Alertness
- 4 Feb 2019
- The Effect of Chronic Caloric Restriction on Anxiety-like Behaviours of Adult Male Rats
- 26 Jun 2018
- Factors Associated with Cognitive Impairment in Obstructive Sleep Apnoea
- 1 Mar 2017
- Falls risk in older adults: the impact of neck pain, dizziness and manual therapy treatment
- 23 Nov 2016
- Establishing an objective tool for evaluating frailty in older adults
- 22 Feb 2016
- Obstructive sleep Apnoea and Cognitive Impairment in Older Adults
- 2 Mar 2015
- Microvascular Alterations and Corpora Amylacea Progression in the Post-mortem Hippocampus of Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnoea
- 2 Mar 2015
- Repurposing matrine for the treatment of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
- 15 Sep 2014
- Neuropathology of Obstructive Sleep Apnoea
- 4 Mar 2013
Research interests
Current areas of research involvement are: i) etiology of Alzheimer's disease; ii) role of attentional processes in driver behaviour and signal detection; iii) differential effects of A1 and A2 beta-casomorphin on the gut-brain axis.
