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Simón(e) Sun is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Tollkuhn Lab at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and a young scientist and artist. Her research focuses on the importance of neural processes—both chemical and electrical—in the brain that maintain balance. These functions are crucial for maintaining past information (memory) while incorporating new inputs (learning). Other scientific topics that she is researches include, cellular and systems correlates of neuropsychiatric diseases, sleep, body-brain hormone signaling, and mathematical modeling. Her music and art tries to unify the rational and emotional domains of science and art by giving emotional drives to science and rational inquiry to art. She received her PhD from the New York University Neuroscience Institute.