Elizabeth Coulson

University of Queensland

Professor Elizabeth (Lizzie) Coulson graduated her PhD on the normal function of the amyloid precursor protein of Alzheimer’s disease, with now Emeritus Professor Colin Masters from the University of Melbourne. Following a year at the ZMBH, University of Heidelberg, Germany, she pursued postdoctoral work studying neuronal cell death in neurodegeneration and development at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute with now Emeritus Professor Perry Bartlett before being recruited in 2003 to the University of Queensland as a founding member of the Queensland Brain Institute (QBI). She was appointed Professor in 2015, joining the School of Biomedical Sciences, becoming Deputy Head of School in 2019, Interim Head in 2020, then appointed as Head of School in November 2021. She maintains a 20% QBI appointment and is a member of QBI’s Clem Jones Centre for Ageing Dementia Research.