Following a career as an academic in the Biomedical Sciences and Higher Education Research, and as a professional staff member as a Career Consultant at several universities, Stefan Alexander is returning to academia to pursue a PhD program with the Centre for Mental Health Research at NCEPH. His PhD project contributes to the prevention and management of autistic burnout. It aims to develop an autistic burnout literacy scale and to design a targeted intervention to increase autistic burnout literacy among autistic adults and their communities.