Rebecca Lawson is Professor of Neuroscience and Computational Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge, where she leads the Prediction and Learning Lab. She studied for her PhD at the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge (2006-2010) and completed her postdoctoral training at University College London (2011-2017) before returning to the Psychology Department in Cambridge to start her research group in 2018. Her team uses computational modelling in conjunction with pharmacological manipulations and neuroimaging methods to understand how differences in learned expectations influence neural processing in health, development, and disorder. Her work has been recognised with the British Neuropsychiatry Association Lishman Prize (2014), the Society for Biological Psychiatry Early Career Investigator Award (2018), the British Association of Psychopharmacology award (2018) UCL Neuroscience Early Career Research Prize (2018) and most recently the Lister Biomedical Research Prize (2021).