Angelica Corey Breviario

PhD Candidate

Macquarie University

Angelica Breviario is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Philosophy at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, specialising in philosophy of science with a focus on animal models in psychiatric research.

From 2023 to 2025, Breviario served as the Higher Degree Research (HDR) Representative at Macquarie University. During candidature, organised the Sydney Philosophy of Psychiatry Conference and a conference on the Ethics of Emerging Technologies in Animals for the Ethics and Agency Centre, and facilitates the Attention Reading Group.

Research focuses on construct validity in animal models of psychiatric disorders, examining how researchers navigate conceptual and methodological challenges in translational biomedical research.

Interests
  • Models
  • Complexity
  • Sentience
  • Consciousness
Education
  • MA, 2023

    Macquarie University

  • BSc (Hons), 2021

    University of Sydney

  • BA, 2015

    University of Sydney