Associate Professor Laura Jacobson heads the Florey’s Sleep and Cognition Group and is Honorary Principal Fellow at the Department of Biochemistry and Pharmacology, University of Melbourne. She received her PhD from the University of Basel, Switzerland in 2006 (Summa cum Laude) then conducted neuroscience drug discovery research as a Laboratory Head with Novartis Institutes of Biomedical Research (Basel, 2007-2013). In 2013 she transitioned to academic research, establishing her group at The Florey in 2016. Her research uses pharmacology, polysomnography and behavioural neuroscience methodologies to investigate interfaces between sleep and cognition and the implications thereof for neurodegenerative and psychiatric disorders.