Lea Delbridge heads the Cardiac Phenomics Laboratory in the Department of Physiology at the University of Melbourne. Lea is Professor of Physiology, and an Academic-Researcher investigating fundamental mechanisms of cardiopathology, including diabetic cardiomyopathy, pericardial adiposity and forms of diastolic heart failure. Her recent research has focused on the response to stress within the heart, with particular interest in autophagy, mitophagy and glycophagy.