BSc, MS, PhD, FAA, FAHMS

Professor Wray holds joint appointments at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) at the University of Queensland and has recently been appointed to University of Oxford as Professor of Neuroscience. She is Head of the Centre for Populations & Disease Genomics within IMB. She is a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Leadership Fellow, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Science. In 2020 Professor Wray was awarded the NHMRC Elizabeth Blackburn Award for Leadership in Basic Science. She is a Clarivate Highly Cited researcher.

Her research focusses on development of quantitative genetics and genomics methodology with application to psychiatric and neurological disorders. She plays a key role in the International Psychiatric Genomics Consortium and co-leads the sporadic ALS Australia systems genomics consortium (SALSA) funded by the MND Research Australia IceBucket Challenge and FightMND. She is one of three international advisors to JAMA Psychiatry and is on the editorial advisory board of Neuron.