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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]