Congratulations to the eleven UC Berkeley faculty members named AAAS Fellows. The newly elected Fellows include a tech pioneer, the author of a book on nature\u2019s poisons and a neuroscientist who can decode what you are seeing from your brain wave activity.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0Science\u00a0family 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 in the College of Letters & Science include:<\/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 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 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