37 UC Fellows named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Thirty-seven UC fellows have been named 2023 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), part of the organization’s 150th anniversary class. Being named a Fellow of AAAS, one of the world’s largest general scientific societies and publisher of the Science family of journals, is a lifetime honor.

They join an elite group of hundreds of AAAS Fellows across UC. A familiar face will soon preside over the prestigious organization: earlier this year, Dr. Theresa Maldonado, UC’s vice president for research and innovation, was elected president of AAAS.

This latest class is comprised of 502 scientists, engineers and innovators in 24 areas at the forefront of emerging technologies, semiconductor production, environmental issues, science education, innovative therapies and more.

UC’s 37 fellows span 8 campuses (including medical schools) and 2 national laboratories. (UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab overlap one fellow).

UC AAAS Scholars 2023

Eligible nominees are members whose efforts to advance science or its applications are scientifically or socially distinguished and who have been continuous members of the AAAS for at least four years preceding the year of their appointment. Fellows included Thomas Edison, WEB DuBois, Maria Mitchell, Steven Chu, Ellen Ochoa, and Irwin M. Jacobs.

New fellows will receive a certificate and a gold and blue rosette pin (representing science and engineering, respectively) to commemorate their election and will be celebrated at a forum on September 21, 2024. That evening, AAAS will also celebrate the 150th anniversary of the program. at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.

AAAS was founded in 1780 to honor excellence and bring together leaders from all fields of human endeavor to examine new ideas, address issues important to the nation and the world, and work together “as expressed in our charter, ‘to cultivate all art and science which may tend to promote the interest, honor, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people.’” Fellows have been announced since 1874.

AAAS recently elected a new president of the organization, University of California Vice President for Research and Innovation Theresa Maldonado. She will serve a one-year term as president-elect, followed by one year as AAAS president and one year as immediate past president.

A complete list of 2,023 fellows is below, listed by the AAAS section:

Agriculture, Food and Renewable Resources

Siobhan Brady, University of California at Davis

Anthropology

Diane Gifford-Gonzalez, University of California Santa Cruz

biological Sciences

Nicole King, University of California at Berkeley

Jian-Hua Mao, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Trent Northen, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Kit Pogliano, University of California San Diego

Beth Shapiro, University of California Santa Cruz

Matthew Welch, University of California at Berkeley

Chemical

Louise A. Berben, University of California Davis

Kevin John, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Filipp Furche, University of California at Irvine

M. Scott Shell, UC Santa Barbara

Jenny Yang, University of California at Irvine

Education

Ozcan Gulacar, University of California at Davis

Engineering

Chen-Nee Chuah, University of California at Davis

Robert Heath, University of California San Diego

Ravi Prasher, University of California at Berkeley

Beth Pruitt, UC Santa Barbara

Sayeef Salahuddin, University of California at Berkeley

General interest in science and engineering

Robert Irion, University of California Santa Cruz

Mathematics

Peter Ebenfelt, University of California San Diego

Natalia Komarova, University of California San Diego

Mariel Vázquez, UC Davis

Medical Sciences

Andreas Bäumler, UC Davis

Emanual Maverakis, University of California Davis

Luis Fernando Santana, UC Davis

Renée Tsolis, UC Davis

Owen Witte, UCLA

Neuroscience

Allan J. Tobin, UCLA

Physical

Michael Levi, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and UC Berkeley

Alan Poon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Timothy Tait, University of California at Irvine

Wei Xiong, University of California San Diego

Psychology

Sonja Lyubomirsky, UC Riverside

Social, Economic and Political Sciences

Brad Barber, University of California at Davis

Richard Scheffler, University of California at Berkeley

Statistics

Daniel Gillen, University of California at Irvine