Ten from the Eberly College of Science named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Ten faculty members from the Eberly College of Science have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Election as a Fellow is an honor bestowed by peers upon members of the AAAS, the world's largest general scientific society and the publisher of the journal Science.
Reka Albert, Distinguished Professor of Physics and Biology, was selected for “distinguished contributions to the field of systems biology and network analysis, particularly for work on signaling networks, pathway dynamics and complex inter-dependent networks.”
W. Niel Brandt, Verne M. Willaman Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics and professor of physics, was selected for “distinguished contributions to knowledge of the high-energy universe obtained through sensitive observations of accretion onto supermassive black holes.”
Vincent H. Crespi, Distinguished Professor of Physics, Materials Science and Engineering, and Chemistry, was selected for “distinguished contributions to the theoretical understanding of nanoscale materials, including carbon nanotubes and artificial spin ice.”
Nikolay Dokholyan, G. Thomas Passananti Professor and vice chair for research, Penn State College of Medicine Department of Pharmacology and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and affiliate of the Eberly College of Science Department of Chemistry, was selected for “distinguished contributions to the field of computational biology and biophysics, particularly for developing technologies that illuminate biological mechanisms using principles of physics.”
Kurt Gibble, professor of physics, was selected for “distinguished contributions to the science and technology of atomic clocks and novel studies of ultra-cold atom-atom scattering.”
Carsten Krebs, professor of chemistry and of biochemistry and molecular biology, was selected for “creative use of kinetic and spectroscopic methods to understand redox metalloenzymes, and for teaching aspiring practitioners the discipline of bioinorganic chemistry.”
Asok Ray, Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics, was selected for “innovations in machine learning and real-time control of smart machines and autonomous systems, and for popularizing their usage in both defense and commercial applications.”
David S. Weiss, Distinguished Professor of Physics, was selected for “distinguished contributions to atomic physics, particularly for the experimental realization and study of one-dimensional gases, and for development of neutral atom quantum computing.”
Jinchao Xu, Verne M. Willaman Professor of Mathematics and director of the Center for Computational Mathematics and Application, was selected for “distinguished contributions in the field of computational mathematics, particularly for his development and analysis of numerical methods for partial differential equations and multigrid methods.”