Dr. Sharon Thompson-Schill is the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is an expert on the biological basis of human cognitive systems, including language, memory, perception, and cognitive control, and the relationships between these systems. , she has produced more than 150 scientific publications, which collectively have been cited over 13,700 times. Thompson-Schill is active in positions of leadership both at the University of Pennsylvania and in the broader scientific community. At the University of Pennsylvania, she recently served as the Chairperson of the Psychology Department (2014-2019), as the founding Director of MindCORE (2017-2019), and as the Director (2010-2014) and co-director (2014-2017) of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience. She is also a member of the Committee on Science and the Arts at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia and has served on the editorial boards of several scientific journals, including as Co-Editor-in-Chief of Cognitive Neuroscience. Biographical Information Thompson-Schill was born on June 24, 1970, in Washington D.C. She attended Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart in Maryland for high school, graduating in 1987. She currently lives in Philadelphia and has three children, who attended Central High School (Philadelphia) and Julia R. Masterman School (also in Philadelphia), and two of whom have attended Reed College, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Brandeis University, and Emerson College. Thompson-Schill enrolled in Davidson College in 1987 and graduated in 1991 with a B.A. (with honors) in Psychology. She then pursued graduate study at Stanford University in Cognitive Psychology, receiving her Ph.D. in 1996. Her dissertation, entitled "Context effects on word recognition: Implications for models of lexical representation", was published and is currently available in the Stanford University Library. She spent the next three years as a post-doctoral fellow in the Psychology Department at the University of Pennsylvania before joining the faculty there in 1999. Career Thompson-Schill's career is ongoing and well recognized. She was the Chairwoman of the Department of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania from 2014 to 2019 and has served as the Director and co-director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the same university. She also served as the founding Director of MindCORE, the University of Pennsylvania's hub for the integrative study of the mind. She is a well-recognized professor at the university and has held numerous faculty appointments both there and at other institutions (such as Swarthmore College and Notre