Dr Rachel Carey is a behavioural scientist with a background in health psychology. Following completion of her PhD at NUI Galway, Rachel took up a post at University College London in 2014, where she worked on the Theories and Techniques of Behaviour Change Project. In 2016, she joined Bupa's UK clinical team as Senior Behaviour Change Research Advisor, where she led a collaborative programme of work with UCL, applying behavioural science to Bupa's clinical products and services. Over the last five years, as Zinc's Chief Scientist, Rachel has built a growing, interdisciplinary R&D team who work with startup founders and academics to create new, scalable innovations to tackle important societal challenges. Health is a key theme across Zinc's strategy and portfolio, and two of its core mission areas are mental health, and healthy ageing. In 2020, Rachel was awarded a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, supporting her work to scale-up Zinc's R&D activities. The ambition with this work is to create a connected R&D system for the social and behavioural sciences, applying and advancing science to accelerate innovations that tackle important problems. Rachel also has an honorary role at UCL, where she continues to teach on health psychology and digital health, and is an Associate of the UCL Centre for Behaviour Change.