Katherine Quinn, 2021-2022 AIP Congressional Science Fellow

Member Societies: American Physical Society, Optica

Background

Katherine Quinn is an interdisciplinary theoretical physicist studying hierarchical patterns in complex systems from our cosmological model of the early universe to emergence in biophysics. During her time as a graduate student at Cornell, she co-founded a Graduate Women in Science chapter, was an instructor for Cornell’s Prison Education Program, and served as an elected member of Cornell’s University Assembly. After receiving her Ph.D. she worked as an Associate Research Fellow for the Center For the Physics of Biological Function from 2019-2021 with joint appointments at both Princeton and the City University of New York. In addition to her research, she was selected as a 2020-2021 Next-Generation Fellow with the American Physical Society to advocate for a reduction in the threat from nuclear weapons.