I am deeply sad about Veronica´s death. I met Veronica for the first time at the Yale University. Since than we met several times in India. My family and I could learn Veronica as an open-minded person with an enormous intellectual capability and the “feeling” of science. She was an interdisciplinary thinking person and had interest in politics and other disciplines apart from neuroscience, which is a very seldom constellation for a scientist. The neuroscience community has lost one of the most talented neuroscientists. She was one of the leading persons in the field of olfaction and contributed essentially in the field of neuroscience. Her wonderful personality and her scientific ability impressed me much. I will miss her.