LIONANO CO-FOUNDER AND CHIEF SCIENTIFIC ADVISOR, PROF. HECTOR ABRUNA, ELECTED MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected
The National Academy of Sciences announced today the election of 84 new members and 21 foreign associates in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
Those elected today bring the total number of active members to 2,382 and the total number of foreign associates to 484. Foreign associates are nonvoting members of the Academy, with citizenship outside the United States.
Newly elected members and their affiliations at the time of election are:
Abruña, Héctor D.; director, Energy Materials Center, and Emile M. Chamot Professor of Chemistry, department of chemistry and chemical biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
Agrawal, Arun; coordinator, international forestry resources and institutions research network, and professor, School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Ahn, Natalie G.; associate director, Biofrontiers Institute, and professor, department of chemistry and biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder
Arora, Sanjeev; Charles C. Fitzmorris Professor of Computer Science, computer science department, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.
Ashenfelter, Orley C.; Joseph Douglas Green 1895 Professor of Economics, industrial relations section, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.
Banaji, Mahzarin R.; Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics, department of psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Banerjee, Utpal; professor and chair, department of molecular, cell, and developmental biology, University of California, Los Angeles
Barnes, Carol A.; Regents’ Professor of Psychology, Neurology, and Neuroscience, Evelyn F. McKnight Chair for Learning and Memory in Aging, director of the Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute, and director of the division of neural systems, memory, and aging, University of Arizona, Tucson
Barrangou, Rodolphe; Todd R. Klaenhammer Distinguished Scholar in Probiotics Research, department of food bioprocessing and nutrition sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Bercovici, David; Frederick W. Beinecke Professor of Geology and Geophysics, department of geology and geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
Bergelson, Joy M.; professor and chair, department of ecology and evolution, The University of Chicago, Chicago
Berger, Shelley; director, epigenetics program, Daniel S. Och Professor, Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor, and professor, departments of cell and developmental biology, of genetics, and of biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Bertozzi, Andrea L.; professor of mathematics and mechanical and aerospace engineering, and director, program in computational and applied mathematics, department of mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles
Bildsten, Lars; Frederick W. Gluck Chair in Theoretical Physics and director, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara
Boering, Kristie A.; Lieselotte and David Templeton Professor of Chemistry, departments of chemistry and of earth and planetary science, University of California, Berkeley
Campisi, Judith; professor, Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Novato, Calif.
Chetty, Raj; professor of economics, department of economics, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.
Conley, Dalton; Henry Putnam University Professor in Sociology, department of sociology, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.
Cutler, Sean; professor, department of botany and plant sciences, University of California, Riverside
Dan, Yang; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; and professor, department of molecular and cell biology, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley
Davis, Roger J.; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; and H. Arthur Smith Chair and professor of molecular medicine, program in molecular medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester
Denmark, Scott E.; R.C. Fuson Professor of Chemistry, department of chemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Desplan, Claude; Silver Professor, professor of biology and neural science of biology, department of biology, New York University, New York City
Elgin, Sarah C.R.; professor, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; and professor of genetics and education, department of biology, Washington University, St. Louis
England, Paula S.; professor of sociology, department of sociology, New York University, New York City
Finkelstein, Amy N.; John & Jennie S. MacDonald Professor and professor of economics, department of economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Frenkel, Igor B.; professor of mathematics, department of mathematics, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
Fu, Ying-Hui; professor, department of neurology, University of California, San Francisco
Gao, Huajian; Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Engineering, School of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, R.I.
Goldberg, Karen I.; Vagelos Professor of Energy Research, department of chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Gottesman, Michael M.; deputy director for intramural research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.
Griffith, Jack D.; Kenan Distinguished Professor, department of microbiology and immunology, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Haber, Daniel A.; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; and director, Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown
Hacon, Christopher D.; distinguished professor of mathematics, department of mathematics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Harrison, Susan P.; professor, department of environmental science and policy, University of California, Davis
Hastie, Trevor; professor of statistics and John A. Overdeck Professor of Mathematical Sciences and Biomedical Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.
Herschlag, Daniel; professor of biochemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.
Hess, Harald; Janelia Group Leader, Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, Va.
Isacoff, Ehud Y.; director, Molecular Imaging Center, professor of neurobiology, department of molecular and cell biology, and director, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley
Iwasaki, Akiko; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; and Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Immunobiology and Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and professor of molecular, cellular, and developmental biology, department of microbiology and immunobiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn.
Kalogera, Vassiliki; E.O. Haven Professor of Physics and Astronomy and director, Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.
Kardar, Mehran; Francis Friedman Professor of Physics, department of physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Kasper, Dennis L.; William Ellery Channing Professor of Medicine and professor of microbiology and immunobiology, department of microbiology and immunobiology, Division of Immunology, Harvard Medical School, Boston
Kasting, James F.; Evan Pugh Professor, department of geosciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
Kazazian, Haig H., Jr.; professor of human genetics, Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore
Kuzawa, Christopher W.; professor of anthropology, department of anthropology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.
Landau, Barbara; director, Science of Learning Institute, and Dick and Lydia Todd Professor of Cognitive Science, department of cognitive science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Lewis, Jennifer A.; Hansjorg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Lin, Haifan; Eugene Higgins Professor of Cell Biology, professor of genetics and of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive sciences, departments of cell biology and genetics, and director, Yale Stem Cell Center, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
Losos, Jonathan B.; William H. Danforth Distinguished Professor, department of biology, Washington University, St. Louis
Luger, Karolin; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; and professor and Jennie Smoley Caruthers Endowed Chair of Biochemistry, department of chemistry and biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder
Lukin, Mikhail D.; professor of physics and scientific co-director, Harvard Optics Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
MacMillan, David; James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry, department of chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.
Manga, Michael; professor of earth and planetary sciences, department of earth and planetary science, University of California, Berkeley
Marcus, Charles M.; Villum Kann Rasmussen Professor and director, Center for Quantum Devices, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Mason, Carol A.; professor, departments of pathology and cell biology, neuroscience, and ophthalmology, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York City
McCouch, Susan R.; professor, department of plant breeding and genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
Milstein, David; professor of chemistry, department of organic chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
O’Brien, Stephen J.; professor, department of biological sciences, and advisor, NSU office of research and technology transfer, Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Ozsvath, Peter S.; professor of mathematics, department of mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.
Price, T. Douglas; Weinstein Professor of European Archaeology, emeritus, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Reich, Peter B.; professor, F.B. Hubachek Sr. Chair, Regents Professor of Forest Resources, and Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Forest Ecology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul
Rignot, Eric J.; Donald Bren Professor of Earth System Science, department of earth system science, University of California, Irvine
Sali, Andrej; professor, department of bioengineering and therapeutic sciences, and associate dean, School of Pharmacy, University of California, San Francisco
Sánchez Alvarado, Alejandro; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; and investigator, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Mo.
Schatz, David G.; Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Immunobiology, professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry, and chair of immunobiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn.
Schneewind, Olaf; Louis Block Professor and professor of microbiology, department of microbiology, The University of Chicago, Chicago
Sharpe, Arlene H.; co-director, Evergrande Center for Immunologic Diseases, George Fabyan Professor of Comparative Pathology, and head, Division of Immunology, Harvard Medical School, Boston
Shifman, Mikhail; professor and member, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Thaler, Richard H.; Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of Economics and Behavioral Science, Booth School of Business, The University of Chicago, Chicago
Tonry, John L.; professor, Institute of Astronomy, University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Vazirani, Umesh V.; director, Berkeley Quantum Information and Computation Center, University of California, Berkeley
Vierstra, Richard D.; George and Charmaine Mallinckrodt Professor of Biology, department of biology, Washington University, St. Louis
Wagner, Günter Paul; Alison Richard Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, department of ecology and evolutionary biology, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
Wall, Diana Harrison; senior research scientist, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, professor of biology, and director, school of global environmental sustainability, Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Walsh, Christopher A.; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; chief, division of genetics and genomics, Boston Children’s Hospital; and Bullard Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston
Waterman, Clare M.; distinguished investigator and director, Laboratory of Cell and Tissue Morphodynamics, Cell Biology and Physiology Center, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.
Wen, Xiao-Gang; Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics, department of physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
White, Steven R.; professor of physics, department of physics and astronomy, University of California, Irvine
Whitlock, Cathy L.; professor of earth sciences, Montana State University, and fellow of the Montana Institute on Ecosystems, Bozeman
Yannakakis, Mihalis; Percy K. and Vida L.W. Hudson Professor of Computer Science, department of computer science, Columbia University, New York City
Zakian, Virginia A.; Harry C. Weiss Professor in the Life Sciences, department of molecular biology, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.
Zaldarriaga, Matias; professor of astrophysics, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J.
Zhang, Feng; Patricia and James Poitras ’63 Professor in Neuroscience, associate professor, brain and cognitive sciences and biological engineering, and investigator, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and core member, The Broad Institute, Cambridge, Mass.
Newly elected foreign associates, their affiliations at the time of election, and their country of citizenship are:
Aro, Eva-Mari; professor of molecular plant biology, and academy professor, department of biochemistry, University of Turku, Turku, Finland (Finland)
Bednorz, J. Georg; researcher and IBM Fellow, IBM Research-Zürich, Rüschlikon, Switzerland (Germany)
Ceballos González, Gerardo; professor, Institute of Ecology, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico (Mexico)
Ekers, Ronald D.; CSIRO Fellow, division of astronomy and space sciences, CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation), Epping, Australia (Australia)
Faltings, Gerd; director, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany (Germany)
Hagoort, Peter; director, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, and professor, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands (Netherlands)
Karkanas, Panagiotis; director, Malcolm H. Wiener Laboratory of Archaeological Sciences, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Athens, Greece (Greece)
L’Huillier, Anne; professor of physics, department of physics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden (France/Sweden)
Lindahl, Tomas; emeritus group leader, Francis Crick Institute, London, United Kingdom (Sweden)
Marquet, Pablo A.; full professor of ecology, department of ecology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile (Chile)
Mbacke, Cheikh; senior adviser, Population Program and INDEPTH Network, Hewlett Foundation, Dakar, Senegal (Senegal)
Morata, Ginés; research professor, Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa (CSIC-UAM), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain (Spain)
Nieminen, Risto M.; distinguished professor (emeritus), Aalto University, Aalto, Finland (Finland)
Padrón, Raúl; emeritus investigator, Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research, Caracas, Venezuela (Venezuela)
Penny, David; distinguished professor, Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand (New Zealand)
Radman, Miroslav; founder, Mediterranean Institute for Life Sciences, Split, Croatia (Croatia)
Reth, Michael; full professor in molecular immunology, Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg, Germany (Germany)
Schwarz, Helmut; professor of chemistry, Institut für Chemie, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany (Germany)
Tavaré, Simon; director, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom (Australia)
Vousden, Karen H.; chief scientist, Cancer Research UK, and group leader, Francis Crick Institute, London, United Kingdom (United Kingdom)
Xepapadeas, Anastasios; professor of economic theory and policy, Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece (Greece)
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