Rate My Professor Daniel Rudaizky

Dr. Daniel Rudaizky is a Senior Lecturer in the Curtin School of Population Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, where he also serves as Director of Graduate Research. He completed his PhD in Psychology in 2014 at the University of Western Australia, focusing his doctoral research on the cognitive processes underlying emotional experience. Following his PhD, Rudaizky spent five years as a Research Coordinator in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in Western Australia, conducting research on mental illness and medical disorders among children and adolescents in WA communities. In 2019, he returned to academia as a Research Fellow in the Centre for the Advancement of Research on Emotion within UWA's School of Psychological Science, where he maintains an Adjunct Lecturer position. His professional path integrates clinical research experience with academic roles in psychology and population health.

Rudaizky's research examines cognitive and emotional processes that underpin health behaviours and mental health conditions, including depression, anxiety, healthy eating, obesity, alcohol consumption, tobacco use, chronic health conditions such as diabetes and chronic pain, exercise, bereavement in university students, ADHD, and social support dynamics. He is affiliated with Curtin's enAble Institute and collaborates with UWA and Child and Adolescent Health Services. With over 50 publications and more than 600 citations, his work appears in journals like Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, Death Studies, Alcohol: Clinical and Experimental Research, and Frontiers in Public Health. Key recent publications include "Attention to Alcohol Advertising Causes Elevated Consumption via Increased Alcohol-Related Craving" (2026), "Individual differences in resilience to alcohol advertising: Two processing biases during advert viewing predict interindividual variation in postviewing craving and consumption" (2026), "Differences in university experiences, support seeking, and mental well-being in Australian university students according to bereavement status" (2026), "Reciprocal regulation in social support interactions between bereaved parents and their potential supporters: a qualitative study" (2025), and "Increasing Health Literacy on ADHD: A Cross-Disciplinary Integrative Review Examining the Impact of ADHD on Brain Maturation, Composition and Function and Cognitive Processes Across the Life Course" (2025).