Professor Dr. Julian Basanovic

Biography

Julian Basanovic is an Adjunct Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia. He completed his PhD at the University of Western Australia in 2016, focusing on biased selective attention and its relationship to elevated anxiety vulnerability. After completing his PhD, he worked at the Western Australia Centre for Health Ageing, serving as a coordinator for cognitive intervention trials aimed at alleviating depression symptoms in people with dementia. In 2018, he re-joined the Centre for the Advancement of Research on Emotion as a Research Fellow, where he investigated the role of information processing in emotional behaviour, lectured in undergraduate courses, and supervised research students. In 2022, he commenced a lecturer position at the University of Exeter while maintaining his adjunct position at the University of Western Australia. His research interests include cognitive information processing, emotional vulnerability, anxiety, and fear, with ongoing projects investigating cognitive biases and their modification in relation to emotional experiences.

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