Laura Jacobson

Laura Jacobson is an accomplished academic and researcher currently serving as an Associate Professor and Laboratory Head in Sleep and Cognition at the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health since March 2013. Jacobson is also an Honorary Principal Fellow and Honorary Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne since April 2016. Previously, Jacobson led the Behavioural Pharmacology division at Psylo, a biotech firm focused on developing psychedelic therapeutics, from January 2022 to February 2023. In addition, Jacobson has held roles as a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University School of Medicine and as a Laboratory Head at Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research. Jacobson began a research career as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Roche after earning a PhD in Behavioural Neuropharmacology from the University of Basel.