Senior Lecturer at University of Sheffield.Julie's main research interests are identifying and understanding neuroinflammatory contributions to ageing and dementia, particularly age-associated white matter pathology. Her research primarily focusses on the detailed immunohistological characterisation and gene expression profiling of specific cell populations in the ageing brain. Julie graduated from the University of Sheffield in 1995 with BSc (Hons) in Neuroscience, and was awarded a PhD in Neuroimmunology from Sheffield Hallam University in 1999. After a year working as a post-doc in New York she joined the Department of Neuroscience at Sheffield University in 2002 and has been a member of the Neuropathology research group since 2004. She was appointed Lecturer in Translational Neuropathology in 2016 and Senior Lecturer in 2020.