Associate ProfessorMark Stokes

Mark Stokes is an Associate Professor in the School of Psychology at Deakin
University. Mark obtained his PhD from La Trobe University, where he also
taught advanced cognitive neuroanatomy. Mark's PhD was in the non-linear
mathematical modelling and analysis of the neural substrate of circadian
rhythms and the application of this model to the treatment of circadian
disorders in various conditions including ageing. Following this work, Mark
worked developing and managing epidemiological datasets of injury mortality
and morbidity. In 1999 Mark was appointed to Vanderbilt University, Nashville,
Tennessee, where he taught biological rhythms at undergraduate and post-
graduate levels and advanced multivariate statistics at doctoral level. In
2000 Mark returned to Australia to be appointed the Director of the Victorian
Injury Surveillance and Applied Research unit at Monash University, where he
undertook development of multivariate and univariate statistical models to
forecast injury epidemiology and the impact these would have on population
quality of life. At this time Mark was elected to the board of Kidsafe
Victoria. He has served as both state and national president, and was elected
to life membership in 2012. He remains actively involved with Kidsafe. In
2002, Mark joined Deakin University. Presently, Mark teaches Advanced
Multivariate Statistics, and is actively involved in a number of research
programs including Evolutionary models of Behaviour, and Subjective Wellbeing,
and the female profile of Autism Spectrum Disorder, the neurobiology of Autism
Spectrum Disorder, and social interventions in Autism Spectrum Disorder.