Sofia earned their PhD in microbiology from the University of Rochester Medical Center.
[2] Prior to graduate school, they earned a BS in biology at the University of Mount Union.
[3] Sofia is the former co-host of Short Wave, NPR's science podcast, which launched in October 2019.
[4][5][6][7][8] On June 16, 2021, it was announced that Maddie Sofia would be leaving Shortwave in the fall of 2021 [9] Prior to beginning their work on Short Wave, Sofia was an assistant producer and associate producer on the NPR Science Desk.
[10] Sofia collaborated with Joe Palca on an NPR program that trains young science communicators, NPR Scicommers (formerly known as Friends of Joe's Big Idea or FOJBI).