Laura Germine, PhD, is the assistant director of the McLean Institute for Technology in Psychiatry, the director of the Brain and Cognitive Health Technology Laboratory at McLean Hospital, and an instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Germine received her BA in neurobiology from UC Berkeley, her PhD in experimental psychopathology from Harvard University, and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in psychiatric genetics at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. 

Dr. Germine's research is oriented around understanding cognitive functioning in health and disease as well as building technology for studying cognition and behavior using the web and mobile devices. She created on e of the first online neuropsychological laboratories in 2005, which later became TestMyBrain.org, a platform that has attracted over 1.7 million research participants.