Six young UC Berkeley faculty members have been selected to receive a 2023 Sloan Research Fellowship, the largest number of fellows this year from any one public university.
The fellowships honor extraordinary U.S. and Canadian researchers whose creativity, innovation and research accomplishments make them stand out as the next generation of leaders.
UC Berkeley's 2024 Sloan Research Fellows are (clockwise from upper left) Dipti Nayak, Kwabena Bediako, Michael Lindsey, Meng-meng Fu, Nika Haghtalab, Geoff Penington, Preeya Khanna, Yakun Sophia Shao and Penny Wieser.
As a sign of the University of California, Berkeley's ability to attract the most promising early-career researchers, nine young assistant professors have been named 2024 Sloan...
The Brown Institute for Basic Sciences at Caltech today announced the 2024 class of Brown Investigators. The cohort, the first selected through the newly formed Brown Institute for Basic Sciences, comprises eight distinguished mid-career faculty working on fundamental challenges in the physical...
Assistant Professor Raúl Briceño and Associate Professor Raffaella Margutti
Two Berkeley Physics faculty members were among the nearly 400 scientists and engineers awarded by President Biden to receive the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and...
The Society of Hellman Fellows has announced that Assistant Professor Eric Ma has been awarded a 2024-2025 Fellowship in support of his research proposal, Fluorescence of Optical Phonons, which delves into the high-risk, under-explored topic of the mid-...
Clockwise from upper left, Alberto L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, Doris Bachtrog, Uroš Seljak, Irfan Siddiqi, Mark T. D'Esposito, James Hurley and Polly Arnold. Graphic by Neil Freese/UC Berkeley
April 24, 2024
Seven UC Berkeley scientists — including Physics Professors Irfan Siddiqi and Uros Seljak — are among 250 new members...
