Associate Professor, School of Information | Member of the Graduate Faculty
Dr. Andrea Thomer is an Associate Professor at the University of Arizona College of Information Science. Her research interests include the maintenance and evolution of knowledge infrastructures, scientific data curation, and the sociotechnical impacts of information organization. She is especially interested in span>the use and curation of natural history collections data, and much of my research and service focuses on this community. <Her research has been funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services and the National Science Foundation, and published in em>JASIST< em>CSCW< em>Slate< and more. Dr. Thomer earned her doctorate at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign in 2017. Prior to her graduate work, she was an excavator and ad hoc data curator at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, California.