Biography

Dr. Jodi Schneider is Associate Professor of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where she directs the Information Quality Lab. She studies the science of science through the lens of arguments, evidence, and persuasion. Her long-term research agenda analyzes controversies applying science to public policy; how knowledge brokers influence citizens; and whether controversies are sustained by citizens’ disparate interpretations of scientific evidence and its quality. At her home institution, she holds affiliate appointments in the Beckman Institute, Health Care Engineering Systems Center, European Union Center, Informatics, Center for Health Informatics, and Cline Center for Advanced Social Research. She also has external affiliations with University of Wisconsin Madison's Information School, University of Illinois Chicago School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Department of Biomedical Informatics. Her work has been funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the European Commission, IMLS, NIH, ORI, Science Foundation Ireland, the Harvard Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and an NSF CAREER award.

Schneider completed her PhD in informatics at the National University of Ireland ("Enabling reuse of arguments and opinions from online social disputes"), Galway and has degrees in library & information science (M.S. UIUC), mathematics (M.A. UT-Austin), and liberal arts (B.A., Great Books, St. John's College).