Profiles of women in science: Sophie Molholm, Professor, Albert Einstein School of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA

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the next scientist for our series of Women in Neuroscience. We began this series to bring visibility and recognition to the superb women scientists working in our community (Helmreich et al., 2017); you can find all of the previous profiles here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1111/(ISSN) 1460-9568.women-in-science. I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Molholm in July 2023. A memorable quote from our interview: 'It maybe cliché to say, but you really have to celebrate the successes'. A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DR. MOLHOLM'S BACKGROUND Dr. Molholm 'graduated from San Francisco State University with a BA in psychology in 1989. She completed her Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 2002 with her dissertation: The Cortical Neurophysiology of Visual-Auditory Multisensory Processing in Humans, for which she was awarded the CUNY Outstanding Dissertation Award' (Wikipedia, 2023). A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DR. MOLHOLM'S WORK 'As a Cognitive Neuroscientist, my research centers around understanding the intricacies of the brain and its