I received my PhD in Psychiatry and Neuroimaging from the University of Edinburgh, where I worked on neurobiological markers of Glutamate and brain circuitries in individuals at high risk of schizophrenia. I undertook postdoctoral training at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), pursuing parallel translational stress research in post-traumatic stress disorder by combining behavioural and cognitive neuroscience. Then I advanced my interdisciplinary research in individuals with schizophrenia as the Project Lead of a nation-wide European Research Council – funded study in Ireland. I subsequently worked on neurobiological alterations that may be underlying youth suicidal thoughts and behaviours (University of Cambridge) and autism spectrum disorders (King’s College London) before I joined the Institute for Mental Health and School of Psychology as Assistant Professor at Birmingham.