Dr Aisling Koning

Aisling has a neuroscience degree from the University of Glasgow and a PhD from the University of Leicester. She has worked as a post-doc at the Institute of Psychiatry, initially researching mechanisms of neural plasticity and later with preclinical neuroimaging. Here, in addition to hands-on research skills she gained invaluable experience writing and editing across many subject areas and facilitating grant-writing workshops. Aisling’s has experience writing across broad subject areas and her special interests are mental health, neuroscience, and psychiatry. Aisling is now freelance medical writer and editor for several agencies and is also involved with the peer review process for the BMJ.