Nicholas is a Senior Lecturer in the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Melbourne and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York.

He teaches undergraduate courses in psychology and post-graduate courses within the clinical psychology program. Nicholas completed a B.S. in Neurobiology and Psychology at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, prior to undertaking an M.A. and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University at Albany, SUNY. Nicholas did post-doctoral training at New York University, the Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, prior to moving to Australia in 2017.

Nicholas’s research focuses on those things that make us most like robots (i.e., algorithmic approaches to learning and decision-making) and least like robots (i.e., developing capacities for introspection and insight of self-concept via meditation research). His work aims to understand the human condition and to use that understanding to mitigate maladaptive functioning and increase adaptive functioning. Nicholas has interests in Anxiety, Depression, Decision-making, fMRI, Psychometrics, Mindfulness, and Assessment.

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