Dr Natalie Marchant is an Alzheimer’s Society Senior Research Fellow based at University College London. She obtained her undergraduate degree at Williams College, USA and PhD at Sussex University, UK, both in psychology, before a completing a post-doctoral fellowship in neuroimaging and cognitive neuroscience at the University of California, Berkeley. She is currently involved in several UK- and internationally-funded projects to investigate lifestyle factors that increase risk or resilience to neurodegeneration, cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease; and behavioural interventions that may modify these factors.