Christine Pfund (she/her) is a senior scientist with the Wisconsin Center for Education Research and the Department of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW). She is also director of the Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experience in Research at UW-Madison (CIMER) and the principal investigator of the National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN) Coordination Center. Dr. Pfund’s work focuses on developing, implementing, documenting, and studying interventions to optimize research mentoring relationships across science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM). Dr. Pfund co-authored the original Entering Mentoring curriculum and co-authored many papers documenting the effectiveness of this approach. She is a member of the National Academies committee that published the consensus report and online guide, The Science of Effective Mentorship in STEMM.

Dr. Pfund co-leads the Mentorship Action Collaborative and project, and oversees the CIMER curricula development.