Peiyan is an animal behavior neuroscientist who runs the behavioural phenotyping core facilities at Duke-NUS and at the Department of Pharmacology at NUS. In addition, she is the facilitator for the courses in the Phase 1 medical curriculum and the co-director of the GMS1000 module in the Office of Education. She has devoted much of her research career to understanding how the brain works. This is because she has always found the complex organisation of the human brain and the amazing cognitive abilities that it allows to be fascinating.