Imola Wilhelm MD is a senior research associate in the Biological Research Centre, Szeged, Hungary. Her research interest is focused on cerebral circulation, the neurovascular unit and the blood-brain barrier. She has studied the role of cells of the neurovascular unit, especially pericytes, in brain metastases, neuroinflammation and aging. She is the author of 59 international peer reviewed articles and three book chapters with a cumulative citation number of ~1500. She has been the principal investigator of five scientific grants and received several prizes including the Prize of the Dr. Ferenc Joó Foundation for Brain Research (in 2008), the Junior Award (in 2013) and the Bolyai Fellowship (in 2012 and 2016) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. She has mentored and supervised several BSc, MSc, MD and PhD students. Since 2020, she has been a Szent-Györgyi mentor of the Szeged Scientists' Academy. Presently, she is a member of the expert group in the Neurosciences Panel of the National Research, Development and Innovation Office, Hungary. She has been active in science communication as a lecturer at Researchers’ Night (since 2014) and Brain Awareness Week (since 2018). She is married and a mother of one daughter.