Abigail Morrison is a computational neuroscientist at the Research Centre Jülich and the RWTH Aachen. She received her MSc in artificial intelligence in 2001 from Edinburgh University and her PhD in computational neuroscience in 2006 from the University of Freiburg. Between 2006 and 2009 she was a scientific researcher at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan; she subsequently held a junior professorship at the University of Freiburg from 2009 to 2012, as well as a group leadership at the Bernstein Center Freiburg, followed by a professorship at Ruhr University of Bochum from 2012 to 2020. Her primary neuroscientific research focus is learning, representation and computation in spiking neural networks. Her technological research interests include neuroinspired computation and developing high-performance simulation technology for spiking neural networks, in particular the NEST simulator (www.nest-simulator.org) and its modelling language toolchain, NESTML.