Andrea Stith

Education

• PhD in Biophysics, University of Virginia
• BS in Physics, University of Delaware

Biography

Andrea Stith is the assistant dean for research development at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. In her role, she facilitates faculty securing larger and more diverse grants, the development and implementation of college-level research strategy, and community-building.

Since receiving her doctorate in biophysics in 2000, Stith has worked in science policy and research administration at various nonprofits and universities, including the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology.  She was an AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow in the Office of Legislative and Public Affairs at the National Science Foundation, a German Chancellor Scholar of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at both the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany and the Ludwig Maximillian University in Munich, Germany, and a Research Fellow at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, China.

She has years of experience directing research and educational development, first as assistant director for interdisciplinary education at the University of Colorado BioFrontiers Institute, and then as director of research development for science and engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In addition, Stith is currently on the Board of the American Friends of Alexander von Humboldt University.