Laura Cram is Professor of European Politics and Director of NRlabs Neuropolitics Research at the University of Edinburgh. Her lab uses social computational and experimental approaches, including fMRI brain imaging, face-emotion coding, eye-tracking and physiological hormone testing to get ‘under the hood’ of political attitudes, identities and behaviours. She has published widely on the European Union (EU) policy process and on EU identity. She held a Senior Fellowship on the Economic and Social Research Council’s UK in a Changing Europe programme to explore the insights that cognitive neuroscience could offer into contemporary debates on the UK’s EU membership of the EU. She was Special Advisor to the Scottish Parliament’s, European and External Relations Committee, on the Inquiry into the Impact of the Treaty of Lisbon on Scotland. She has provided evidence to the Houses of Lords and Houses of Commons in the UK and works closely with industrial partners and government officials in her research. She has been cited in the New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Economist, Financial Times, Irish Times, Telegraph, the Conversation, BBC, Sky News, Al Jazeera, CNN, International Associated Press and her lab’s work has featured in BBC and Al Jazeera documentaries on the process of political decision-making. She is co-editor of Government and Opposition.