Camilla Nord Ph.D.

Camilla Nord, Ph.D., leads the Mental Health Neuroscience Lab at the University of Cambridge, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. She is also Fellow and Director of Studies in Psychological and Behavioural Sciences at Christ’s College Cambridge. Her lab investigates how changes in the brain and body cause or contribute to neuropsychiatric disorders. The eventual goal of her neuroscientific work is to translate new techniques and models into better treatments for patients. Outside of her academic work, Camilla is currently writing a popular science book for Penguin Press about the role of brain and body processes in mental health and illness (expected 2023).

Camilla studied Physiology and Psychology at Magdalen College, Oxford as an undergraduate, undertook her doctorate at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, focussing on the role of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in depression, and completed postdoctoral training at the University of Cambridge (School of Clinical Medicine) in neuromodulation and computational psychiatry, before being appointed a Group Leader at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

Camilla has recently been named a Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science, received the 2022 Young Scientist Award from the European Society of Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, and has been awarded over £1 million of research funding from the Medical Research Council (MRC), the AXA Research Trust, and the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), among others.