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. There is a maximum of 2 centrally funded Chancellor’s Fellows, per School, at any one time.
| Name | School/Department | Term |
|---|---|---|
| Jacob Bouwer | Henry Samueli School of Engineering Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | 2022-2025 |
| Bridget Cooks | School of Humanities Department of African American Studies Department of Art History | 2022-2025 |
| Michael Cooper | School of Physical Sciences Department of Physics and Anatomy | 2020-2023 |
| Aimee Edinger | School of Biological Sciences Department of Developmental and Cell Biology | 2021-2024 |
| Christie Fowler | School of Biological Sciences Department of Neurobiology and Behavior | 2022-2025 |
| Laura Kang | School of Humanities Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies | 2022-2025 |
| Chang Liu | Henry Samueli School of Engineering Biomedical Engineering | 2022-2025 |
| Melissa Mazmanian | Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences Department of Informatics | 2021-2024 |
| Connor Mooney | School of Physical Sciences Department of Mathematics | 2022-2025 |
| Babak Shahbaba | Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences Department of Statistics | 2020-2023 |
| Mark Steyvers | School of Social Sciences Department of Cognitive Sciences | 2022-2025 |
| Sabrina Strings | School of Social Sciences Department of Sociology | 2021-2024 |
| Erik Sudderth | Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences Department of Computer Science | 2020-2023 |
| Bryan Sykes | School of Social Ecology Department of Criminology, Lay & Society | 2021-2024 |
| Ming Tan | School of Medicine Department of Medicine Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics | 2021-2024 |
| Katrine Whiteson | School of Biological Sciences Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry | 2022-2025 |
| Jing Xia | School of Physical Sciences Department of Physics and Astronomy | 2022-2025 |
| Di Xu | School of Education | 2020-2023 |
| Xiangmin Xu | School of Medicine Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology | 2020-2023 |
| Jenny Yang | School of Physical Sciences Department of Chemistry | 2021-2024 |