Dr. Natalie Matosin is an Australian scientist known for research into the causes of stress and its role in mental illness. Matosin spoke at TEDx Hamburg in June 2017 and is a National Health and Medical Research Council CJ Martin Early Career Research Fellow. The focus of Matosin's research has been on the physical and chemical clues that remain in brain tissue following the effects of stress over a lifetime. Matosin analyses postmortem brain samples in order to compare the brains of those diagnosed with PTSD or depression with the brains of healthy donors