DrMéadhbh Brosnan

Méadhbh is an Assistant Professor and Ad Astra Fellow at the UCD School of Psychology and an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health at Monash University in Melbourne. Her work uses cognitive neuroscience techniques to understand how interindividual differences in the brain impact cognition. A predominant focus is understanding how environmental enrichment facilitate resilience to cognitive difficulties in healthy ageing, neurodegenerative conditions, and following stroke. Her research has received funding from several international bodies including the European Commission Horizon 2020, Alzheimer’s Research UK, the John Fell Fund Oxford University Press, and Corpus Christi College at the University of Oxford. Méadhbh holds a Research MSc in Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience from Maastricht University, and a PhD in Psychology from Trinity College Dublin. Prior to joining UCD, she was a Marie Sklodowska-Curie early stage researcher at Trinity, a senior research fellow at Monash in Melbourne, and a Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellow at Oxford.