My research focuses on understanding how distinct brain circuits underpin different memory systems, and how damage to these networks influences risk and resilience to dementia across the lifespan. I use state-of-the-art scanning facilities at the Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC) to ask how inter-individual variation in the structure and function of different brain networks is linked to human memory, such as our ability to remember events from the past. With Professor Andrew Lawrence and Dr Mark Postans, and funded by the MRC, we are collaborating with the Bristol-based Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children to investigate how genes associated with later life cognitive health influence brain structure and function, as well as cognitive performance in young adults, as well as their parents.