Dr Natalie Matosin is an Al & Val Rosenstrauss Rebecca L Cooper Medical Research Foundation Fellow and Director of the 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 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 (Mental Illness, Neurobiology and Disorders of Stress) broadly aims to uncover fundamental brain functions and the processes that lead to brain disorders. Matosin leads an international research team spanning Australia, the USA, Canada, Germany, Croatia, Iceland and Sweden.

Dr Matosin is a former Fellow of the NHMRC, International Brain Research Organisation and the Humboldt Foundation, and is listed as a Forbes 30 Under 30 in Europe and TEDx speaker.