Prof. Laura Bennet is a Professor of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She received her Ph.D. degree in pediatric medicine from the University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, in 1989. She undertook her Postdoctoral Research Fellow first at Reading University and then at University College London, London, UK specializing in perinatal physiology before returning to New Zealand in 1996 to establish the Fetal Physiology and Neuroscience Group. Her research topics mainly include magnesium, medicine, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, white matter inflammation and neurobiomarkers.