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Professor Julie Henry is a Professor in the School of Psychology, Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences, at the University of Queensland. She earned a Masters (Coursework) and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Aberdeen. She serves as an Affiliate Professor at the Queensland Brain Institute and the Mater Research Institute–UQ, and as Director of the Queensland Multidisciplinary Initiative for Neurocognitive Difficulties (The QLD MIND Project). Her research examines disruptions to social cognition—perceiving, processing, and interpreting social cues including empathy, theory of mind, emotion recognition, and social attention—and prospection, involving prospective memory for anticipating, planning, and acting with the future in mind, such as episodic foresight and affective forecasting. These processes are studied in the context of normal adult ageing and clinical illnesses including Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis, stroke, schizophrenia, mild cognitive impairment, and substance misuse.

Professor Henry has authored over 270 peer-reviewed papers in prestigious outlets such as Nature Reviews Neurology, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Psychological Bulletin, Psychology and Aging, and Cortex. Key publications include "Prospective memory impairment in neurological disorders: implications and management" (Nature Reviews Neurology, 2021), "Social cognitive aging" in The SAGE Handbook of Social Cognition (2012), and "A multidimensional model of social cognitive ageing" (ARC Future Fellowship project, 2018-2022). Her scholarship has garnered more than 22,000 citations in Scopus and over 42,000 in Google Scholar, earning her annual placement on Stanford University's list of the top 2% of science researchers worldwide since 2019. She has received sustained funding from the Australian Research Council—including three Fellowships, eight Discovery Projects (seven as lead), four Linkage Projects (two as lead)—and NHMRC grants, culminating in an ARC Laureate Fellowship (2026-2031) for "Transforming understanding of cognitive ageing: Bridging the lab-life gap." Recognitions include Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the Association for Psychological Science, plus UQ Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences awards for Research Higher Degree Supervision (2016), Research Mentorship (2022), and Excellence in Graduate Research Training - Supervision (2023). She was Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Clinical Psychology (2011-2017), is Associate Editor for Psychology and Aging, and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Aging & Social Policy.