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Dr Allison Bielak BA (Honours), MSc, PhD (Victoria, Canada) Centre for Mental Health Research Building 63, Eggleston Road The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200 T: +61 2 6125 8413 F: +61 2 6125 0733 E: Allison.Bielak@anu.edu.au

Research interests

• Cognitive aging, lifestyle engagement, intraindividual variability, longitudinal research analysis.  

Allison is a postdoctoral research fellow with the Ageing Research Unit studying both healthy and pathological age-related changes in cognition.  She is interested in researching the factors that contribute to the differences in how individuals age cognitively, especially the influence of factors that can be changed, such as lifestyle.  Allison also studies intraindividual variability, or rapid fluctuations in cognitive performance in older adulthood, and how this relates to cognitive ability, health, and potential disease prediction.  She has experience with longitudinal research studies and analyses, and is working on Dynopta (Dynamic Analyses to Optmize Ageing).  Allison has joined us from the University of Victoria, Canada, and has received a postdoctoral fellowship from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.