Rate My Professor Eugene Aidman

Conjoint Professor Eugene Aidman serves as Adjunct Professor in the School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing, at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He is also Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Sydney and has been Principal Investigator at the Defence Science and Technology Group in Adelaide since 2001. Earlier, he held the position of Lecturer in Psychology at Federation University from 1992 to 2002. Aidman obtained his PhD in Psychology from the University of Sydney. His academic formation includes studies in Psychophysiology from 1978 to 1983 and Experimental Psychology from 1983 to 1986 at Lomonosov Moscow State University, along with Science Leadership training at the University of Melbourne from 2006 to 2007.

Aidman's research specializations include non-verbal psychometrics and test development, cognitive experimentation on implicit cognition, self-regulation, and executive functioning, as well as measurement of physical, cognitive, and metacognitive fatigue and its impact on human performance. His areas of expertise encompass personality assessment, motivational psychology, sports science, exercise science, psychological assessment and testing, work psychology, clinical assessment, psychopathology, and behavioral neuroscience. Prominent publications comprise "Coping flexibility and strategy use predict burnout: A two-week longitudinal study" (2026), "How trait confidence and communication shape dyadic decision outcomes and confidence matching" (2026), "Cognitive fitness and mental health outcomes following COVID-19 lockdowns in Australia" (2025), "A recipe for dyadic collective intelligence for well-structured tasks: mix equal parts cognitive ability and confidence plus a pinch of social sensitivity" (2025), "Effects of a Multimodal Psychophysiological Training Intervention on Cognitive Fitness, Hardiness and Wellbeing of Corporate Professionals" (2025), "Emotion Regulation and Coping in Active Military Personnel: A Systematic Review" (2025), "SleepSync: Early Testing of a Personalised Sleep–Wake Management Smartphone Application for Improving Sleep and Cognitive Fitness in Defence Shift Workers" (2024), and "Design, development, and evaluation of a digital sleep and circadian management smartphone application for optimising shift work performance in Defence" (2024). His research has amassed 1,992 citations.