Molly Przeworski studies the genetic and evolutionary processes that have shaped the hereditary differences observed between individuals and species. She has an interdisciplinary background, including a Bachelors of Arts degree in mathematics from Princeton University and a PhD from the Committee on Evolutionary Biology at the University of Chicago. After postdoctoral studies in the Department of Statistics at Oxford University, she spent two years as a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. Before taking up her current position as Professor at Columbia University, she was a faculty member at the University of Chicago and, briefly, at Brown University. Her work has been recognized by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Early Career Investigator Award, the Patricia Gruber Foundation's Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation's Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Award and an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in Computational Molecular Biology.