Nicola R. Sibson is a Professor of Imaging Neuroscience in the Department of Oncology, University of Oxford. Following the completion of her PhD at the University of Cambridge in 1995, she spent 4 years at Yale University before joining the MRC Biochemical and Clinical Magnetic Resonance Unit in Oxford. She then moved to the Department of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics, Oxford, as a University Research Lecturer in 2004 and established the Experimental Neuroimaging Group. Nicola moved her group to the Department of Oncology in 2007 and was made a Supernumerary Fellow of University College Oxford in 2015. She has given numerous plenary lectures at national and international meetings and serves on a number of funding panels and advisory boards. Her research interests include identifying the role of the inflammatory microenvironment in brain metastasis, developing methods for treating brain metastasis more effectively, and identifying imaging biomarkers for tumor detection and monitoring.