Professor Sophie Molholm is a Cognitive Neuroscientist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, with appointments in the departments of Pediatrics, Neuroscience and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. She uses multimodal brain imaging, psychophysics, and standardized cognitive and clinical assessments to probe the brain processes underlying perception and cognition in neurodevelopmental and neuropsychiatric conditions such as autism and schizophrenia as well as rare genetic disorders including 22q11.2 deletion syndrome and Rett syndrome. Her research is supported by federal and foundation grants. In addition to running her lab, she serves as Co-Director of the NIH funded Rose F. Kennedy Intellectual and Developmental Research Center, and an NIH supported training grant for postdoctoral fellows engaged in research on intellectual and developmental disabilities.​​​​​​​