Dr Elizabeth Barsotti

Dr Elizabeth Barsotti is a Senior Investigator Scientist in neuroscience and electron microscopy at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. She completed her PhD in fluid phase behaviour and thermodynamics at the University of Wyoming (2019), where she developed new in situ electron microscopy techniques and patented an apparatus for studying fluid flow through porous media. Her current research focuses on developing advanced 3D electron microscopy methods for whole-brain connectomics - mapping the wiring diagrams of brains.

Beyond research, Dr Barsotti is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She supervises Thermofluid Mechanics, Mechanics, and Materials at Cambridge University, and she is a Lead Tutor for courses on Generative AI in Business and Human-Computer Interaction at Cambridge Advance Online. She is also active in outreach and entrepreneurship: in 2024 she was an Association of British Science Writers Media Fellow at the BBC Science Unit in Wales, producing and appearing in the podcast Unexpected Elements. She is the founder and director of CBX Technologies, a Cambridge-based startup developing software and hardware solutions for Net Zero infrastructure and climate change mitigation.