Karin Holm is a Swiss-American multidisciplinary professional who has been interested in understanding the underlying mechanisms of animal and human decision-making throughout her career. She has explored these questions first by using empirical methods to gather data about learning and motivation in animals and humans, then by examining group behavior through modeling business growth and economic analysis, later by studying the organizational behavior of global health public-private partnerships to develop medicines and vaccines for developing countries, and additionally, by studying governance systems change potential with patient advocacy in health research and treatment. For the last five years, as science writer and editor she has headed the office of research publications at the Blue Brain Project, in Geneva, Switzerland, part of EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), which focuses on simulation neuroscience using computer models to reconstruct and simulate the multiscale behavior of neurons, synapses, neurotransmitters, and other components of neural function and communication in the brain.