Lucia Peixoto received her bachelor’s degree in biochemistry from the Universidad de la República in her native Uruguay in 2002 and earned her Ph.D. in 2009 at the University of Pennsylvania, focusing on using genomics and transcriptomics to understand host-pathogen interactions. She completed her postdoctoral neuroscience training with Ted Abel at the University of Pennsylvania in 2015.

During her fellowship, Peixoto was also a trainee in the Training Program in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) with support from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). As a trainee at CHOP, she completed a clinical internship at the Center for Autism Research under the supervision of Robert Schultz.

Peixoto is currently a tenure-track associate professor in the Department of Translational medicine and Physiology and a core faculty member of the Sleep and Performance Research Center in the College of Medicine at Washington State University. Since starting her independent research group in 2015, she has received a K01 Faculty Development Award from NIH/NINDS and a Maximizing Investigator’s Research Award from NIH/NIGMS. She has also served on the board of directors of the International Society of Computational Biology (ISCB) and has been recognized with the outstanding contributions to ISCB award. Her research centers on the interplay between sleep, brain development and transcriptional regulation with a focus on neurodevelopmental disorders.