Mieke Verfaellie is Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at Boston University and is a Research Career Scientist at the Boston Department of Veterans Affairs Healthcare System. She received her Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Louvain, Belgium in 1986.

Verfaellie serves as the Director of the Memory Disorders Research Center, a multidisciplinary center dedicated to the study of memory disorders in brain-injured adults. Her research is aimed at understanding the cognitive and neural basis of different forms of memory. Verfaellie is interested in understanding why some forms of memory are impaired in patients with amnesia and why some forms of memory remain preserved and hopes to find ways in which preserved memory functions can be used in the service of memory rehabilitation. To gain further knowledge about the regions of the brain that subserve memory, her laboratory has begun to use functional neuroimaging techniques that allow visualization of brain activity during performance of memory tasks.