Johanna Michelle Montgomery is a New Zealand academic, and is professor of physiology at the University of Auckland, specialising in synaptic plasticity in brain cells.
[1] She completed a PhD titled Neural influences on the regulation of acetylcholine receptor expression at the University of Otago in 1998.
[2] She spent five years as a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University, investigating the plasticity of neurons in the hippocampal region of the brain.
[4][5][3] Her research investigates the connections between neural cells, and how these change, including their formation and elimination (synaptic plasticity).
[7] In 2021 she was awarded a James Cook Research Fellowship to study clusters of nerve cells, called ganglionated plexi, in the heart.