Professor Greg Murray

Professor Greg Murray

Professor Greg Murray is currently Director of the Centre for Mental Health and Brain Sciences at Swinburne University in Melbourne. He conducts holistic research into bipolar disorders, circadian rhythms, and personality. He is ranked in the top 1% of researchers worldwide in each of these fields and is recognised as a world expert in mood disorders (Expertscape). He took out his PhD from the Trinder Sleep Lab at University of Melbourne in 2001 and has been a full Professor at Swinburne since 2011. He is a registered Clinical Psychologist and was elected a Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society (APS) in 2013. Professor Murray’s > 230 journal articles are cited > 1000 times a year (Google Scholar) and he has been Chief Investigator on > $31 million in national and international competitive research funding. He is currently leading a 5-year Wellcome-Trust funded multi-national project investigating sleep and circadian disruption as a predictor of relapse in
bipolar disorder (2024-2029). Professor Murray’s chronobiology research has had significant translational impact. He was an expert consultant on the Wellcome Trust Sleep, Circadian Rhythms and Mental Health Report (2022), and has led two expert position papers by the International Society for Bipolar Disorders Chronobiology and Chronotherapeutics Task Force (2021, 2020). As an author of DSM-5-TR (2022), he introduced chronobiological vulnerability to the diagnosis of bipolar I disorder, and he authored the sleep content for the Clinical Guidelines for Lifestyle-based Care in Depression (2022). His Conversation article on the psychology of sleep disturbance has been read more than 1.3 million times.