Anna Marie Quider is an American astronomer and science lobbyist. Formerly the Assistant Vice President for Federal Relations at Northern Illinois University, she remains affiliated with Northern Illinois University as a senior research fellow, and heads consulting firm The Quider Group. She also chairs the Forum on Physics and Society of the American Physical Society.[1]

Education and career

Quider is from Buffalo, New York, where her father was a local politician and her mother taught special education. She went to Grand Island Senior High School (New York)[2] and was an undergraduate at the University of Pittsburgh, graduating in 2007 with a double major in religious studies and history and philosophy of science.[3] She earned a Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of Cambridge, as a Marshall Scholar there.[1][4] Her dissertation, High redshift star-forming galaxies in absorption and emission, was supervised by Max Pettini.[5]

She writes that "About halfway through [graduate school] I realized I didn’t want the traditional academic career". Instead, she became an American Physical Society Congressional Science Fellow, working with Missouri representative Russ Carnahan.[6] She became federal relations director at Northern Illinois University in 2014.[4]

Recognition

Quider was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2021, after a nomination from the APS Forum on Physics and Society, "for stellar leadership in science policy and advocacy, and for promoting and mentoring early-career physicists".[7]

In 2022, the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities gave her their Jennifer Poulakidas Outstanding Achievement Award, and the National Institute for Lobbying & Ethics named her as one of 100 Top Lobbyists for the year.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Anna M. Quider", Authors, American Physical Society, retrieved 2023-11-04
  2. ↑ "Stars favor science whiz: Grand Islander gets British astrophysics scholarship", Buffalo News, 21 December 2006, retrieved 2023-11-04
  3. ↑ Anna Quider, Society of Physics Students, retrieved 2023-11-04
  4. 1 2 3 "Anna Quider honored twice over for outstanding federal relations achievements", NIU Today, 17 November 2022, retrieved 2023-11-04
  5. ↑ Quider, Anna Marie (2007), High redshift star-forming galaxies in absorption and emission (Doctoral dissertation), University of Cambridge, doi:10.17863/CAM.15995, hdl:1810/239408
  6. ↑ Matthews, Jermey N. A. (January 2012), "Science fellows find policy 'a perfect fit'", Physics Today, 65 (1): 24–25, doi:10.1063/pt.3.1396
  7. ↑ "Fellows nominated in 2021 by the Forum on Physics and Society", APS Fellows archive, American Physical Society, retrieved 2023-11-04
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