Dr Maya Schenker completed her PhD at the John Trinder Sleep Laboratory (University of Melbourne) in 2023. Her research focuses on the link between sleep and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Currently, she is the research manager and engagement coordinator for an NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence looking at treatment predictors of exposure-based therapies in anxiety disorders. Her research interest is in furthering our understanding of how sleep influences the mechanisms underlying PTSD and anxiety disorders, and how it affects symptom expression in everyday life. Maya’s goal is to find better ways to prevent and manage these disorders by targeting sleep.