Claudia Cooper is an honorary professor in the Division of Psychiatry at Queen Mary University London, QMUL, where she moved in 2022 after 17 years at UCL. Professor Cooper is a consultant old age psychiatrist in East London NHS Foundation Trust memory services.

Claudia leads the Alzheimer’s Society Centre of Excellence for Independence at home, in which they are developing interventions to support people living with dementia at home; and the NIHR/ESRC APPLE-Tree programme (Active Prevention in People at risk of dementia:Lifestyle,bEhaviour change/Technology to REducE cognitive decline), investigating how lifestyle and behavioural change can prevent dementia in older people.

Claudia supervises PhD students on topics related to ageing and dementia, funded by ESRC, Alzheimer’s Society, Dementia UK, NIHR, and the UCL Dawes Centre for future crime. Claudia is a member of the UK Cabinet Office Trial Advice Panel, which advises and supports evaluations of national government programmes and policies; and the Royal College of Psychiatrist’s psychopharmacology committee.