Neil Alexander Youngson is a Research Fellow in Reproductive Biology at the University of Melbourne. Prior to this, he served as a Senior Research Fellow at UNSW, and as a Principal Investigator of the 'Epigenetics in liver disease' group at the Roger Williams Institute of Hepatology, King's College London, UK. He completed his Ph.D. with Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith at Cambridge University U.K. in 2005. From 2006–2012, he did research in the group of Professor Emma Whitelaw at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane. In both of these laboratories, he worked on mouse models of non-genetic inheritance, making discoveries about how epigenetic molecules can be inherited between generations to influence the phenotype of offspring. In 2012 he joined the group of Margaret Morris at UNSW, Sydney and shifted to studying environmentally-induced epigenetic changes, mainly in obesity and neuroscience. His research areas are focused on epigenetics in disease, development and inheritance.