Mia Soviero

Mia Soviero began her journey in STEM when she was 12 years old and started volunteering as a coach for the Special Olympics. In order to be a better coach for her neurodivergent students, Mia began conducting independent research about different neurological disorders. From the first scientific article, she was hooked; neuroscience became her obsession. In high school, she began taking STEM classes and wrote her first scientific paper—her International Baccalaureate diploma qualification essay—on a meta-analysis of the association between migraine and sleep. Upon her acceptance to Barnard College of Columbia University, she declared her major in Neuroscience and Behavior with a specialization in Behavioral Neuroscience, on a pre-medical track.

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During college, she worked at NYU Langone Health and Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute, conducting neuroscience research. At the Minen Lab, she authored two publications about the efficacy of telemedicine for common neurological conditions, a topic that was especially pertinent immediately in the aftermath of the COVID-19 lockdown. At the Davachi Lab, she assisted in research about autobiographical memory during the COVID-19 pandemic. Mia wrote her thesis based on her research in the Davachi Lab, titled "Is isolation related to depressive symptoms and memory deficits?"

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During COVID lockdown, Mia began creating neuroscience education videos and documenting her journey to medical school. Her most frequently asked questions from followers are about how to get involved in research as an undergrad. Noticing this, and also noticing the lack of resources that even students at one of the most prestigious research universities in the world were given, Mia decided to found Research Girl to bridge the gap between students and research opportunities.