Lucy Gibson is a Academic Clinical Fellow and PhD student in the Department of Psychological Medicine at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King's College London.

Lucy joined King’s in 2015 as an NIHR Academic Foundation Programme trainee in Neuropsychiatry. She developed an interest immunopsychiatry, studying the psychiatric nature and demographic differences in presentations of autoimmune encephalitis.

In 2017 she commenced clinical training in Core Psychiatry at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust with an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship at King's College London. Here, she became interested in the role of neuronal autoantibodies impacting cognition, both in encephalitis and broader contexts.

She was awarded an Alzheimer’s Society funded PhD under Professor Dag Aarsland.