Professor Glenda Halliday is a Senior Principal Research Fellow of the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (NHMRC) and Professor of Neuroscience at the Brain and Mind Centre, at the University of Sydney.

1. What sparked your interest in neuroscience?

Learning from a University teacher about drugs that affect the brain for better or worse.

2. Why do we need to crack the brains code?

Lots of innovative research from very diverse perspectives – from real basic to translational and transformative research.

3. If you weren’t a neuroscientist what would you be instead?

Financial analyst.

4. What’s your favourite fact about the brain?

The brain has more cell types than any other tissue in our bodies.