Title: Senior Advisor to the Director
Employer: Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health
Kristin graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior from University of Illinois in 1994. Since then, Kristin has become a Senior Advisor to the Director at the Center for Scientific Review at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In her position, she handles policy development and implementation, strategic planning, and high stakes communications, and supervises a small staff of scientific review officers.
She was greatly impacted by working at two amazing research labs at UIUC. Those experiences led her to earning a Ph.D. in zoology and having a brief career on the tenure track in academia, during which she established her own research program in behavioral neuroscience.
She is available to have informational interviews, email alumnimentor@sib.illinois.edu if you would like to connect.