Chancellor’s Fellows are faculty with tenure whose recent achievements in scholarship evidence extraordinary promise for world-class contributions to knowledge, and whose pattern of contributions evidences strong trajectory to distinction.
The Chancellor’s Fellow distinction is for three years and carries an award of up to $25K per year in support of research; this title may not be renewed past three years.
Current Chancellor’s Fellows
| Name | School/Department | Term |
|---|---|---|
| Roland Betancourt | School of Humanities Department of Art History | 2018-2021 |
| Sharon Block | School of Humanities Department of History | 2016-2019 |
| Yong Chen | School of Humanities Department of History | 2017-2020 |
| Charless Fowlkes | Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences Department of Computer Science | 2019-2022 |
| Mahtab Jafari | College of Health Sciences Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences | 2016-2019 |
| Elizabeth Jarvo | School of Physical Sciences Department of Chemistry | 2017-2020 |
| Athina Markopoulou | Henry Samueli School of Engineering Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | 2019-2022 |
| Jennifer Martiny | School of Biological Sciences Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | 2017-2020 |
| Yongsheng Shi | School of Medicine Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics | 2019-2022 |
| Robert Spitale | Susan and Henry Samueli College of Health Sciences Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences | 2018-2021 |
| Isabella Velicogna | School of Physical Sciences Department of Earth System Science | 2016-2019 |
| Geoff Ward | School of Social Ecology Department of Criminology, Law and Society | 2016-2019 |
| Guiyun Yan | College of Health Sciences Program in Public Health | 2019-2022 |
| Michael Yassa | School of Biological Sciences Department of Neurobiology and Behavior | 2017-2020 |