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]
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.[7] She became federal relations director at Northern Illinois University in 2014.[5]
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".[8]
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.[5]
References
^ ab"Anna M. Quider", Authors, American Physical Society, retrieved 2023-11-04
^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
^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