
Dr Philip Jean-Richard Dit Bressel
2015听 听 PhD, UNSW Sydney听
I am a behavioural neuroscientist and experimental psychologist at UNSW School of Psychology. I recevied my PhD from UNSW School of Psychology in 2015.
My research seeks to understand the psychology and neurobiology of motivated learning, decision-making, and behaviour. I am particularly interested in how we learn and make decisions about actions with negative consequences ("punishment learning").
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Australian Research Council
Discovery Project (2022-2024). 鈥淏rain circuits for parsing aversion鈥 [Lead investigator, AU$340,023]
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2025听 听听 D. G. Marquis Behavioral Neuroscience Award, American Psychological Association
2024听 听听 Best Paper Award - General Category, Biological Psychiatry Australia
2023听听听听 Millennium Science Fellowship:听"Identifying transcriptomic signatures of adaptive versus maladaptive learning about adverse action consequences鈥
2023听 听 听Translation Launchpad Program, UNSW Sydney
2022听听听听 Early Career Achievement Award, International Behavioral Neuroscience Society
2022听听听听 D. G. Marquis Behavioral Neuroscience Award, American Psychological Association
2015听听听听 The Paxinos Neuroscience Prize, UNSW Sydney
2011听听听听 Istvan Tork Neuroscience Prize, UNSW Sydney
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Editorial Board:听Journal of Neuroscience; Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
Faculty, 听(ACAN), Australasian Neuroscience Society
Guest Editor, Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
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Media
听(2024).听Nesh Nikolic,听Better Thinking Podcast
听(2023). ABC | Future Tense
听(2023). Antony Funnell, ABC | Future Tense
Research sheds new light on self-destructive behaviour听(2023). Lachlan Gilbert, UNSW Newsroom
听(2021).听Education Today
Why punishment may work on some, but not all people听(2021).听Lachlan Gilbert, UNSW Newsroom
听(2020).听TDT Talks | Fiber Photometry Series,听Tucker-Davis听Technologies
My Research Supervision
PhD:
Bixuan Lin
Luke Keevers
Min Lou