Mary-Ellen is a neuroimmunologist and practising psychiatrist who leads the BioMind Lab, working between the University of Cambridge and University of Oxford. She is also co-founder and co-chair of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium Functional Genomics Workgroup, an international hub for large-scale, open science. She serves as blood biomarker lead for the UKRI Mental Health Platform. She hails from Belfast and outside the lab, enjoys languages, music, team workout training and hilly hikes.