She is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in Translational Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Western Ontario's Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry.

[1] Her thesis, conducted under advisor James McClelland, was titled The Interaction of Perception and Cognition: A Competitive Connectionist Model of the Effects of Experience on Perceptual Representations.

[3] Following her PhD, she held a Fogarty Fellowship at the National Institute of Mental Health but left this after a year to take up a Pinsent Darwin Research Associateship at the University of Cambridge.

[5] During their tenure in England, she was a principal investigator in the Translational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab where she researched the fundamental psychological processes involved in memory and perception.

[8] During the COVID-19 pandemic, Saksida was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada for being "a world pioneer in developing touchscreen technology that helps researchers test cognition in mouse models of brain disease in a way that is relevant to human patients.