Åsa Mackenzie

Åsa is a Senior Lecturer in Molecular Neuroanatomy at Lund University since 2025, and prior to this held a Chair (Professorship) at Uppsala University. She was a guest professor at Université de Bordeaux during 2021–2022. She performed her graduate studies on dopamine cell development with Thomas Perlman at Karolinska Institutet (1996-2002), after which she did two postdocs, one at AstraZeneca Transgenics and Comparative Genomics creating transgenic mice, and one at Uppsala University studying Vesicular glutamate transporters. She started her own laboratory in 2008, and has held senior positions at both Medical and Natural Sciences Faculties. Her own work covers dopamine-glutamate co-release of midbrain dopamine neurons, and anatomical & functional studies of STN and pSTN.