DrNatalie Matosin

Dr Natalie Matosin is Director of the Mental Illness, Neurological Disorders & Stress (MINDS) Lab at the University of Sydney, Australia. She holds a prestigious Sydney Horizon Fellowship into the long-term biological effects of stress on the human brain.

Her research program examines human brain cells at individual cell resolution with the aim of developing personalised therapies for brain illnesses, including mental illness, dementias and traumatic brain injury.

Dr Matosin was awarded her PhD in neuroscience at the University of Wollongong in 2015. She undertook postdoctoral training at the University of New South Wales and Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich, where she developed highly specialised expertise in next generation sequencing methods and state-of-the-art histology approaches to analyse postmortem human brain tissue.

Matosin returned to the University of Wollongong in 2018 to establish her independent research laboratory. The MINDS Lab aims to propel how brain conditions are understood and treated, with the goal of enabling human-first drug discovery for the millions of people who are affected by a brain condition in their lifetime. Matosin leads an international research team spanning over ten countries including Australia, the USA, Canada, Germany, Croatia, Iceland and Sweden.

Dr Matosin has previously held fellowships with the NHMRC, Rebecca L Cooper Medical Research Foundation, International Brain Research Organisation and the Humboldt Foundation, and is listed as a Forbes 30 Under 30 in Europe and TEDx speaker.