Maria Lund Dahlberg, M.S.

Senior Program Officer, National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Maria Lund Dahlberg, M.S., is a senior program officer and study director with the Board on Higher Education and Workforce, the Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine, and the Roundtable on Black Men and Black Women in Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Her current work focuses on the Impact of COVID-19 on the Research Careers of Women in Academic Science, Engineering, and Medicine; the Response and Adaptation of Higher Education to the COVID-19 Pandemic; the Science on Effective Mentoring in STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine); and Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Postsecondary Education. Her work with the National Academies spans topics ranging from equity and identity in science, through science communications, to postdoctoral research experiences, health care, and innovation ecosystems. She came to the National Academies by way of a Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Fellowship, which she received after completing all requirements short of finalizing the dissertation for her doctorate in physics at the Pennsylvania State University. Lund Dahlberg holds a Bachelor of Arts with high honors in physics from Vassar College and a Master of Science in physics from the Pennsylvania State University. You can connect with her via Twitter (@RiaDahlberg).