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.
Current Chancellor’s Fellows
| Name | School/Department | Term |
|---|---|---|
| Roland Betancourt | School of Humanities Department of Art History | 2019-2022 |
| Annalisa Coliva | School of Humanities Department of Philosophy | 2019-2022 |
| 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 |
| Charless Fowlkes | Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences Department of Computer Science | 2019-2022 |
| Athina Markopoulou | Henry Samueli School of Engineering Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | 2019-2022 |
| Melissa Mazmanian | Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences Department of Informatics | 2021-2024 |
| Ilhem Messaoudi | School of Biological Sciences Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry | 2021-2024 |
| Babak Shahbaba | Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences Department of Statistics | 2020-2023 |
| Yongsheng Shi | School of Medicine Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics | 2019-2022 |
| 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 |
| Judy Wu | School of Humanities Department of Asian American Studies | 2019-2022 |
| Di Xu | School of Education | 2020-2023 |
| Xiangmin Xu | School of Medicine Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology | 2020-2023 |
| Guiyun Yan | College of Health Sciences Program in Public Health | 2019-2022 |
| Jenny Yang | School of Physical Sciences Department of Chemistry | 2021-2024 |