Amelia is a native of Australia (yes, we have Kangaroos). She obtained her Bachelor of Biomedical Science with Honours from the University of Queensland, Australia before moving to Munich, Germany to complete her PhD with Ruediger Klein at the Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology. She then moved to Boston, USA for her postdoc where she worked with Brad Lowell at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School. Here, she discovered how the brain’s stress axis becomes activated during starvation and pioneered methods to perform continuous recordings of neural activity to understand the circadian control of feeding. Outside of the lab she loves to bake with weird and wonderful flavors, tries to hike as many mountains as possible and, is raising a tiny human.