Eleven UC Berkeley faculty members have been elected 2025 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world\u2019s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals.<\/p>\n
The honorees, announced today (Thursday, March 26), are among nearly 500 scientists, engineers and innovators recognized for their scientifically and socially distinguished achievements.<\/p>\n
The new UC Berkeley members of the 2025 class of fellows are:<\/p>\n
\u00d6zlem N. Ayduk<\/a>, professor and chair of the Department of Psychology and co-director of the Relationships and Social Cognition Lab (RASCL<\/a>). She was recognized \u201cfor distinguished contributions to the field of psychology, particularly for advancing our understanding of the processes that explain why people respond differently to rejection and how to manage rumination.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Abby F. Dernburg<\/a>, professor of molecular and cell biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, \u201cfor distinguished contributions to the field of meiosis, particularly the mechanisms that govern chromosome architecture, dynamics and genome integrity.\u201d She also is a senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).<\/p>\n Felix Raoul Fischer<\/a>, professor of chemistry, \u201cfor distinguished contributions at the interface of physical organic chemistry and condensed matter physics, particularly toward the exploration of strongly correlated phases and nanographene lattices.\u201d<\/p>\n Jack L. Gallant<\/a>, professor of neuroscience, \u201cfor distinguished contributions to the field of systems and cognitive neuroscience, particularly revealing the neural representations underlying vision and language.\u201d<\/p>\n Edward E. Penhoet<\/a>, professor emeritus of molecular and cell biology and associate dean of the Division of Biological Sciences in Berkeley\u2019s College of Letters and Science, \u201cfor outstanding contributions to the scientific community through strategic, scientific and philanthropic leadership in biotechnology.\u201d Penhoet, a former dean of Berkeley\u2019s School of Public Health, co-founded Chiron, an American multinational biotechnology firm that was later acquired by Novartis.<\/p>\n Richmond Sarpong<\/a>, professor and executive associate dean of the College of Chemistry, \u201cfor the development of novel strategies and methods for the synthesis of complex molecules and the late-stage modification of small molecules of relevance to the pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries.\u201d<\/p>\n Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Theunissen<\/a>, professor of neuroscience and of integrative biology, \u201cfor contributions in understanding the neural basis of auditory processing.\u201d<\/p>\n Noah K. Whiteman<\/a>, professor of molecular and cell biology and of integrative biology, \u201cfor distinguished contributions to the field of evolutionary and ecological genetics, particularly for using genome editing to study molecular mechanisms of co-evolution between species.\u201d<\/p>\n Linda Wilbrecht<\/a>, professor of neuroscience and of psychology, \u201cfor distinguished contributions to the neurobiology of learning and adolescent development, including basic insights into basal ganglia function and identification of changes regulated by puberty.\u201d<\/p>\n