Associate Professor Gyengesi was awarded her PhD in 2010 from the Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary, conducting research in the lab of Prof Laszlo Detari. During her PhD she developed and assembled an in vivo electrophysiology set-up for juxtacellular labelling of individual neurons in anaesthetized animals and used this technique to label and immunohistochemically identify neurons in the basal forebrain that are correlated with the EEG activity in the neocortex. During her graduate studies, she collaborated with Dr. Laszlo Zaborszky at the Centre of Molecular and Behavioural Neuroscience, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, spending a year and a half as a research assistant in his lab. During that time she investigated the anatomical connections between the basal forebrain and the medial prefrontal cortex. In 2007, she became a postdoctoral research associate in the laboratory of Dr. Sabrina Diano at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA, at the Department of Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Reproductive Sciences. There, she studied the effect of metabolic changes on synaptic input organization of NPY/AgRP POMC/CART containing neurons in mice hypothalamus. The hypothalamus is closely connected with the basal forebrain and shares some general functions in regulation of sleep. She introduced new techniques (including mitochondria isolation from brain tissue, membrane potential measurements, reactive oxygen species production measurements) to Dr Diano’s lab after learning these new methods on a research trip to the laboratory of Dr Roger F. Castilho at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas, in Campinas, Brazil. Results of this work were published in two high impact factor journals. In 2010 she accepted the opportunity as a postdoctoral research officer in the laboratory of Dr. George Paxinos at Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA). She was involved in two major anatomical mapping projects, one of which is creating a stereotaxic atlas of the marmoset brain, and the other a collaboration with the Brain Research Institute (BRI), Melbourne to map the myelin system of the mouse brain in relation to high resolution MRI. At the end of 2012, she joined the lab of Prof Gerald Muench, at the University of Western Sydney, joining the School of Medicine first as a full time research officer for the Pharmacology group, later appointed as an associate lecturer, then promoted to lecturer in 2016. Her work at UWS focuses on the effects of chronic neuroinflammation in the rodent brain, in particular, on the basal forebrain cholinergic system.