Claire graduated from the University of Manchester with BSc (Hons) Neuroscience in 2006. She then worked as a Research Assistant at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University, investigating the role of neurogenesis in depression. Under the supervision of Prof Klaus Ebmeier and Dr Clare Mackay, she used diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate the role of structural and functional connectivity in late-life depression, bipolar disorder, mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease. After completing her DPhil, she has just started her new job as post-doc in Heidi Johansen-Berg's Lab at FMRIB (http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/systems-plasticity/people), but continues to collaborate on the Whitehall study, and the NIHR funded study "Enhancing brain plasticity and increasing resilience against dementia with exercise".