Katherine Quinn is a Data Scientist at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET). Prior to joining the Data Team, she worked on Capitol Hill as a Congressional Science Fellow sponsored by the American Institute of Physics as part of the AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowship Program, where she focused on legislative issues in energy & environment, science, and R&D funding in the U.S. Department of Defense. Katherine holds a B.S. in math and physics from McGill University, and a Ph.D. in physics from Cornell University. For her postdoc, she worked as an Associate Research Fellow at the Princeton/CUNY Center for the Physics of Biological Function, where she conducted research on emergent phenomena in complex systems with a focus on models in biophysics and machine learning.
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