Profile
Dr Lucy Albertella obtained her PhD from UNSW in 2017. She was a research fellow at BrainPark, Monash University between 2017 and 2024, and started at QIMR in 2025. She leads a team of researchers focusing on developing new tools, methods, and insights to better understand how cognitive risk and protective factors interact across the spectrum of mental health. Dr Albertella has developed a range of measures being used world-wide to advance theoretical models and reveal new transdiagnostic risk and resilience profiles predicting compulsivity versus adaptability and optimal functioning in dynamic, high-pressure occupations. Dr Albertella has published over 70 peer-reviewed papers, most in leading journals in her field, and is currently Associate Editor for Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews and Comprehensive Psychiatry.