Research Interests

psychophysics of temporal perception; theories of consciousness; eye

movements; bipolar-disorder; addiction psychiatry; pain medicine; research

methods; EEG; MRI; MEG

Current Appointments

2019-curr Chief Technology Ocer (CTO) GreenAnt Networks

Melbourne, Australia

2017-curr Addiction Psychiatry, Senior Registrar (on leave) Monash Health,

Mental Health

Clayton, VIC AU

2015-curr Adjunct Lecturer Monash University, Department of Psychiatry

Clayton, VIC AU

2022-curr Vice-President KooyongKoot Alliance

Melbourne, Australia

Education

2007-curr RANZCP Advanced Trainee RANZCP

Australia

2017 Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne, Dept of Psychiatry

Melbourne, Australia

2012 Master of Psychiatry (Hons) University of Melbourne, Dept of Psychiatry

Melbourne, Australia

2009 Memory and Mind, (SUN Scholarship) Central European University

Budapest, Hungary

2003 Medical Bachelor, Bachelor of Surgery (Hons) Monash University

Clayton, Australia

1999 Bachelor of Medical Science (Hons) Monash University

Clayton, Australia

PhD Thesis

Title: Temporal Dissociation: A Phenomenological and Neurophysiological

Investigation

Supervisors and Advisors: Prof M Berk, A/Prof A Anderson, Prof R Carpernter,

Prof T Robbins, Prof P Fletcher, A/Prof Peter Brotchie

Description: This research, conducted jointly at Melbourne University and the

University of Cambridge explored the perception of time and how illusions

of temporal perception can elucidate the brain’s functioning. The research

applied psychophysical methods of measuring eye movements to assess time

perception in well participants given ketamine as a dissociative agent and in

patients with bipolar disorder. It also utilised neuroimaging by fMRI and EEG.

Available: (Open Access) University of Melbourne Minerva

Supplementary Qualiﬁcations

2012 Encephalography in Psychological Research Monash University

Clayton, Australia

2009 MRI Safety Course Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre

Cambridge, UK

2009 Good Clinical Practice in Research Training EU Directive

(2001/20/EC)

Cambridge, UK

Dr Francesco Giorlando

MBBS PhD

Adjunct Lecturer

CTO GreenAnt Networks

September 2023

) Monash University

Department of Psychiatry

Clayton, VIC AU

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About me

Dr Giorlando is a clinician-scientist

with interests in neuroscience,

psychophysics, addiction and

temporal perception. He implements

high-performance computing and

electronic systems for research and

enjoys hacking with digital media and

sustainable technologies.

Selected Grants and Scholarships

2013 Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Time Collaborative Grant

Centre for Time, University of Sydney

2011 ASBDD-AZ Scholarship Research Scholarship

Australian Society for Bipolar and Depressive Disorders

2011 Neuroscience Research Grant Research Grant

Pﬁzer

2010 Young Investigator Grant Research Grant

Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists

Selected Peer Reviewed Publications

1. Berk, M., Mohebbi, M., Dean, O. M., Cotton, S. M., Chanen, A. M., Dodd, S.,

Ratheesh, A., Amminger, G. P., Phelan, M., Weller, A., Mackinnon, A., Giorlando,

F., Baird, S., Incerti, L., Brodie, R. E., . . . Davey, C. G. (2020). Youth Depression

Alleviation with Anti-inﬂammatory Agents (YoDA-A): A randomised clinical trial

of rosuvastatin and aspirin. BMC Medicine, 18(1), 16. https://doi.org/10.

1186/s12916-019-1475-6

2. Dean, O. M., Gliddon, E., Van Rheenen, T. E., Giorlando, F., Davidson, S. K.,

Kaur, M., Ngo, T. T., & Williams, L. J. (2018). An update on adjunctive treatment

options for bipolar disorder. Bipolar Disorders, 20(2), 87–96. https://doi.org/

10.1111/bdi.12601

3. Van Rheenen, T. E., Davidson, S. K., Giorlando, F., Gliddon, E., & Dean, O.

M. (2015). Fostering early and mid-career research in aective disorders. The

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 49(4), 387–388. https://

doi.org/10.1177/0004867414566473

4. Dandash, O., Harrison, B. J., Adapa, R., Gaillard, R., Giorlando, F., Wood,

S. J., Fletcher, P. C., & Fornito, A. (2014). Selective Augmentation of Striatal

Functional Connectivity Following NMDA Receptor Antagonism: Implications for

Psychosis. Neuropsychopharmacology. https://doi.org/10.1038/npp.2014.

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5. Giorlando, F., Markanday, S., Anderson, A., Carpenter, R., & Berk, M.

(2014). Temporal Order Assessment in Patients with Bipolar Disorder. Procedia

- Social and Behavioral Sciences, 126, 216. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.

sbspro.2014.02.381

6. Giorlando, F., Teister, J., Dodd, S., Udina, M., & Berk, M. (2013).

Hyponatraemia: An Audit of Aged Psychiatry Patients Taking SSRIs and SNRIs.

Current Drug Safety, 8(3), 175–180.

7. Moore, J. W., Cambridge, V. C., Morgan, H., Giorlando, F., Adapa, R., &

Fletcher, P. C. (2013). Time, action and psychosis: Using subjective time to

investigate the eects of ketamine on sense of agency. Neuropsychologia,

51(2), 377–384. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.07.

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8. Berk, M., Berk, L., Davey, C. G., Moylan, S., Giorlando, F., Singh, A. B., Kalra,

H., & Malhi, G. S. (2012). Treatment of bipolar depression. Medical Journal

of Australia Open, 1(4), 32–35. http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&

cpsidt=27278349

9. Dean, D. O. M., Data-Franco, J., Giorlando, F., & Berk, M. (2012).

Minocycline. CNS Drugs, 26(5), 391–401. https://doi.org/10.2165/

11632000-000000000-00000

10. Dodd, S., Malhi, G. S., Tiller, J., Schweitzer, I., Hickie, I., Khoo, J. P., Basset,

D. L., Lyndon, B., Mitchell, P. B., Parker, G., Fitzgerald, P. B., Udina, M., Singh,

A., Moylan, S., Giorlando, F., . . . Berk, M. (2012). O-10 - Safety monitoring

guidelines for treatments for major depressive disorder. European Psychiatry,

27, Supplement 1, 1. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0924-9338(12)74110-X

11. Moylan, S., Giorlando, F., Nordfjærn, T., & Berk, M. (2012). The role of

alprazolam for the treatment of panic disorder in Australia. Australian and New

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Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 46(3), 212–224. https://doi.org/10.1177/

0004867411432074

12. Berk, M., Kapczinski, F., Andreazza, A. C., Dean, O. M., Giorlando, F., Maes,

M., Yücel, M., Gama, C. S., Dodd, S., Dean, B., Magalhães, P. V. S., Amminger,

P., McGorry, P., & Malhi, G. S. (2011). Pathways underlying neuroprogression

in bipolar disorder: Focus on inﬂammation, oxidative stress and neurotrophic

factors. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 35(3), 804–817. https://doi.

org/16/j.neubiorev.2010.10.001

13. Coull, J. T., Morgan, H., Cambridge, V. C., Moore, J. W., Giorlando, F., Adapa,

R., Corlett, P. R., & Fletcher, P. C. (2011). Ketamine perturbs perception of the

ﬂow of time in healthy volunteers. Psychopharmacology. https://doi.org/10.

1007/s00213-011-2346-9

14. Dean, O., Giorlando, F., & Berk, M. (2011). N-acetylcysteine in psychiatry:

Current therapeutic evidence and potential mechanisms of action. Journal of

Psychiatry & Neuroscience: JPN, 36(2), 78.

15. Dodd, S., Malhi, G. S., Tiller, J., Schweitzer, I., Hickie, I., Khoo, J. P., Bassett,

D. L., Lyndon, B., Mitchell, P. B., Parker, G., Fitzgerald, P. B., Udina, M., Singh, A.,

Moylan, S., Giorlando, F., . . . Berk, M. (2011). A consensus statement for safety

monitoring guidelines of treatments for major depressive disorder. Australian

and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 45(9), 712–725. https://doi.org/10.

3109/00048674.2011.595686

16. Morgan, H. L., Coull, J. C., Moore, J., Cambridge, V., Giorlando, F., Adapa,

R., & Fletcher, P. C. (2011). Does ketamine induce an abnormal sense of time

in healthy volunteers?: International Clinical Psychopharmacology, 26, e144.

https://doi.org/10.1097/01.yic.0000405879.10085.ea

Selected Conference Presentations and Posters

1. Giorlando, F. (2022, November). (Talk) building a platform for running and

managing large scale young persons’ mental health trials. SFT-22 Successes

and Failures in Telehealth Conference.

2. Giorlando, F., Lancaster, R., Fischer, D., & Jacka, D. (2019, March). (Poster)

Addiction Medicine in the Pain Clinic Setting: Outcomes over 10 months.

International Medicine in Addiction Conference.

3. Giorlando, F. (2018, August). (Poster) from the Inside Out, Non-locality and

Consciousness. 22th Anuual Meeting of the Assocciation for the Scientiﬁc Study

of Consciousness. https://theassc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/2018_

ASSC-program-0.2.pdf

4. Giorlando, F. (2018, August). (Talk) Ketamine Modulates Brain Activity in

Regions Associated with Temporal Disintegration. Monash Psychiatry Academic

Day.

5. Giorlando, F. (2016, October). (Talk) The Time Train: A New Arrival of

the Specious Present. Time in Tokyo, International Symposium on Temporal

Perception and Experience.

6. Giorlando, F., Markanday, S., Dahler, J., Anderson, A., Fletcher, P., & Berk,

M. (2015, July). (Poster) Inverted Time Perception: Understandings from fMRI

and EEG. 19th Anuual Meeting of the Assocciation for the Scientiﬁc Study of

Consciousness.

7. Giorlando, F., Markanday, S., Dahler, J., Anderson, A., Carpenter, R.,

& Berk, M. (2014, July). (Talk) The Perception of Time and Bipolar

Disorder. 18th Anuual Meeting of the Assocciation for the Scientiﬁc Study

of Consciousness. https://theassc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/

ASSC-18-FinalBookletWebVersion.4.pdf

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Languages

English: Native Speaker.

Italian: Verbally Fluent.

Research Skills

• Study Coordination: History of coordination of multiple clinical

randomised trials. Coordination of neuroimaging data collection.

Experience with administration of experimental pharmacology.

• Experimental Hardware Design: Experience designing and building

specialist research equipment including high-temporal resolution

displays, analog-to-digital data collection systems and electronic

interfaces.

• High Performance Computing: Highly skilled Linux system administrator

with experience designing and managing high-performance systems for

neuroimaging data analysis, high performance storage systems and multi-

core computer clusters. Experience with multiple Linux OS variants, virtual

machine management, Mac OS and Windows.

• Programming: Flexible and experienced scientiﬁc programming

including: embedded and real-time systems (Arduino C), statistical

analysis (R, python), advanced scripting (BASH, cron), Web languages

and CMS systems (including HTML, Django, Ember, Hugo, Wordpress),

Research speciﬁc systems (MATLAB, Psychtoolbox, SPM, Fieldtrip).

• Reproducible Research: Advanced usage of software for re-usable

programmatic document generation with specialist graphics (R

Markdown, RStudio, git, ggplot, D3.js, L

X, Inkscape SVG, 3D rendering,

Web visualisation).

Interests and Hobbies

• Environmental rehabilitation and revegetation: Involved in revegetation

projects and river catchment rehabilitation and advocacy

• Metaphysics and Quantum Physics: Implications for theories of

consciousness, cosmology

• Bicycle Touring: Long distance cycling, bicycle mechanics and camping

• Sailing: Qualiﬁed Day-Skipper (UK qualiﬁed)

• Sustainable Technologies: Interests in Biological Carbon Capture,

Alternative Fuels, Solar, Lighter than Air Vehicles

• Chess: Recreational

Current Memberships

• Association for the Scientiﬁc Study of Consciousness (ASSC)

• KooyongKoot Alliance (Vice-President)

• Yarra Link Project (Founder Board Member)

• Australian Institute of Digital Health (AIDH)

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