Molly Przeworski is currently the Alan H. Kempner Professor of Biological Sciences and of Systems Biology at Columbia University. The focus of her work is in population genetics. Molly earned her BA in mathematics from Princeton University and her PhD in evolutionary biology from the University of Chicago, then completed a postdoc in the statistics department at the University of Oxford. Prior to joining Columbia, she was a researcher at a Max Planck Institute and on the faculty at Brown and the University of Chicago. Work in her group has contributed to a better understanding of mutation and meiotic recombination processes in vertebrates, as well as of natural selection in humans. In recognition of this research, she was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020, and was the recipient of the 2023 Scientific Achievement Award from the American Society of Human Genetics.