Dr. Andrea Kwakowsky is a Lecturer above the bar and a Program Director MSc in Neuropharmacology at the University of Galway (Pharmacology & Therapeutics). She earned her Ph.D. from the Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary) and took up a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Physiology at the University of Otago (Dunedin, New Zealand). She has published 53 papers in various peer-reviewed international journals and received over 1,500 citations. She started her lab at the University of Auckland in 2015, focusing on GABA, glutamate, estrogen signaling in normal brain function, and changes associated with age-related pathological conditions such as Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s disease. Her research program further attempts to understand how these signaling systems interact with signaling pathways that regulate normal cellular function and play a role in neurodegenerative disorders and her teaching disciplines include the areas of Pharmacology and Neurodegenerative disorders.