We would like to congratulate Magdalini Polymenidou, who is Associate Professor of Biomedicine at the Department of Quantitative Biomedicine of the University of Zurich, on being elected Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)! This recognition comes after she was selected in 2018 as an EMBO Young Investigator. The Polymenidou lab researchers the molecular mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and FrontoTemporal Dementia (FTD), with a focus on the role of the RNA binding proteins TDP-43 and FUS in these processes.