Dr Donna Rose Addis is the Canada 150 Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory and Aging, Senior Scientist at the Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Health Sciences, and Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto. She completed her PhD at the University of Toronto and a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University. She was then a Professor at the University of Auckland for 10 years before returning to Canada. She combines neuroimaging, behavioural and neuropsychological methods to investigate how the human brain remembers past experiences, imagines future events and constructs a coherent sense of self, as well as how these abilities differ with age, mood disorders, and memory loss. Her work has yielded new theoretical and philosophical perspectives, including the reconceptualization of memory as future-oriented. With over 115 publications and 25,000 citations, she has received a number of prestigious early career awards, and is the youngest-ever fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.