Naomi Wray is an ARC Future Fellow and an NHMRC Honorary Senior Research Fellow. She is a statistical geneticist and leads the Psychiatric Genetics Laboratory at QIMR. Her early training was in quantitative genetics with application in livestock which provides a strong theoretical foundation for her research today. She holds a BSc in Animal Science from the University of Edinburgh (1984), an MS in Animal Breeding and Statistics from Cornell (1986) and a PhD in Quantitative Genetics from the University of Edinburgh (1989). Her career path (which includes 7 years off from research and 9 years working part-time) from livestock genetics through epidemiology of childhood leukaemia to psychiatric genetics has been underpinned at each stage by a strong interest in underlying theory and practical applications. She moved to Australia to join QIMR in 2005. She is currently involved in a number of international collaborations of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) for psychiatric disorders, including the International Schizophrenia Consortium, the Psychiatric GWAS Consortium for major depression and the Anxiety Genetics Study Team. Her current research also focuses on prediction of genetic risk to disease from genome-wide association data.