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Macquarie University

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Anne Castles is Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science at Macquarie University, where she also serves as Scientific Director of the Macquarie University Centre for Reading and Honorary Professor in the School of Psychological Sciences. Her research centers on reading development and dyslexia, with a focus on variability within the reading-impaired population and the causes of different types of dyslexia. She completed an honours degree in Psychology at the Australian National University in 1987 and a PhD at Macquarie University in 1993, supervised by Max Coltheart. After her doctorate, Castles taught and researched at the University of Melbourne's Department of Psychology before returning to Macquarie in 2007 as a research appointee at the Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science. She later became Head of the Department of Cognitive Science and Scientific Director of the Centre for Reading. In 2022, she was awarded an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship for her project 'Literacy in adolescence: The next major challenge in the science of reading,' aimed at improving literacy outcomes for secondary school students, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds.