Qualifications

• Bachelor of Psychology (Honours 1st class, Faculty Medal), University of Newcastle 
• Graduate Certificate in Tertiary Education, Federation University 
• Doctor of Philosophy (Psychological Sciences), University of Newcastle 

Areas of interest

• Critical care 
• Childhood adversity 
• Mood and personality disorders 
• Health service advocacy 

Areas of expertise

Jacob is an expert in the impact of traumatic events on people’s psychology. His early career focused on the impact of childhood adversity on the development of personality and mood disorders in adulthood. Currently, Jacob applies the same focus in combination with his lived experience of septic shock to investigate how critical illness and its treatment impact people’s ongoing psychological outcomes and how health systems can be improved to minimise these impacts.  

Grants

• CI, NHMRC Partnership Project (PRC2) – “Consumer and clinician partnership to develop post-sepsis follow-up models of care across the lifespan” (GNT2034917, 2024–2027). Consumer CI, directly relevant to embedding patient-centred post-ICU care pathways. ($1,478,026)
• AI MRFF Clinical Trials Stream – “FludrocortIsoNE in Septic Shock Evaluation: The FINESSE adaptive randomised clinical trial” (2025/MRF2036019, 2025–2030). Consumer investigator in critical care septic shock intervention trial. ($4,999,930.12)
• AI MRFF NCCR Grant - National Critical Care Research Platform to ensure high-quality sepsis care in Australian ICUs (2021/MRF2023066) CI: Prof Andrew Udy, Assoc Prof Zoe McQuilten, Dr Ary Serpa Neto, Dr Alisa Higgins, Assoc Prof Daryl Jones, Dr Manoj Saxena, Assoc Prof Anthony Delany, Assoc Prof Naomi Hammond, Dr Kelly Thompson, Dr Jacob Dye, Dr Glenn Eastwood, Assoc Prof Kiran Shekar, Assoc Prof Edward Litton, Prof Paul Young, Assoc Prof Kimberly Haines, Assoc Prof Adam Deane. ($4,899,778.81)
• CI, Collaborative Evaluation Research Centre Seed Grant – “The efficacy of psychological interventions for the psychological impacts of Post Intensive Care Syndrome (PICS)” (2024). Demonstrates leadership in intervention design and systematic evaluation of psychological care after ICU. ($4,992)
• CI, VicHealth Grant – “The Predictors of Flourishing and Floundering in Emerging Australian Adults” (Opp-21857, 2020–2022). ($9,800)

Current

• PhD student, Federation University, 'Identifying Structural Linguistic Markers of Depression in Written Text', supervisor. 
• PhD student, Federation University, 'Post-Intensive Care Syndrome (PICS): An investigation of the risk and protective Factors associated with psychological outcomes of PICS', supervisor. 
• PhD student, Federation University, 'Available treatment options and their effectiveness in addressing the psychological symptoms experienced by adults with Post Intensive Care Syndrome', supervisor.
• PhD student, University of Wollongong, 'The influence of route of hospital presentation on clinical and post-clinical outcomes in adults with sepsis', supervisor.

• Abnormal psychology 
• Research methods 
• Statistics 
• Cognitive psychology 

Specialist roles

• Expert panel, Safer Care Victoria Deteriorating Patients 
• Expert panel, Safer Care Victoria Delirium in the Older Person 

Professional association memberships

• Australasian Delirium Association board member 
• Australian New Zealand Intensive Care Society 
• National Critical Care Research Collaboration Management Committee