Division of Fluid Dynamics Fellowship
Fellowship in the American Physical Society is a great honor. In accordance with the APS Constitution, "there shall be elected to Fellowship only such Members who have contributed to the advancement of physics by independent, original research or who have rendered some other special service to the cause of the sciences." All APS members are invited to nominate deserving colleagues as potential Fellows of APS.
Rules and eligibility
Nominating a colleague for APS Fellowship is a way to commend them for excellence in physics and their service to the physics community.
To nominate a colleague for APS Fellowship, you and the additional nominating co-sponsor must be active APS members. The colleague you nominate must also be an active APS member.
Process and selection
To nominate a colleague for APS Fellowship, please include the following:
- The nominee's name
- The co-sponsor's name, and email address
- A 300 character suggested citation that does not include the nominee's name, gendered pronouns, or symbols, and begins with, "For..."
- A 2,500 character paragraph expanding on the citation to indicate the originality and significance of the contributions
- A PDF sponsor's recommendation letter
- The co-sponsor's recommendation letter, which must be uploaded by the co-sponsor
- The nominee's curriculum vitae (CV), which must include academic and employment history, professional honors, a list of principal publications only, and other significant contributions to physics
- Optional: Up to two additional PDF letters of support, which must be uploaded by the letter writers
Selection Committee
- Gretar Tryggvason (Chair)
- Jonathan Freund (Vice Chair)
- Kenneth Breuer
- Nicholas Ouellette
- Nicholas Hutchins
- Petia Vlahovska
- Michael Plesniak
- Linda Cummings
Recent recipients
Christian J. Kaehler
2024 recipient
For profound innovations in imaging methods and their application to advance understanding of turbulent and microscale flows.
Kunihiko Taira
2024 recipient
For creative and illuminating computational and data-driven approaches for analyzing and controlling unsteady and turbulent flows.
Pavlos P. Vlachos
2024 recipient
For developing advanced tools for non-invasive flow diagnostics and uncertainty quantitation, and for translating such tools into biomedical and clinical applications, particularly the diagnosis and management of cardiovascular disease and drug delivery.
Ruben Juanes
2024 recipient
For fundamental advances — using experiments, innovative imaging, and theory — in understanding the role of wettability for controlling the dynamics of fluid displacement in porous media and geophysical flows, and exploiting this understanding to optimize subsurface carbon sequestration technologies.
Steven L. Brunton
2024 recipient
For significant research contributions to the modeling and control of fluid dynamics, including pioneering the use of machine learning to discover governing equations and reduced-order models from data, and for innovative undergraduate, graduate, and public science education.
The membership of APS is diverse and global, and the nominees and recipients of APS Honors should reflect that diversity so that all are recognized for their impact on our community. Nominations of members belonging to groups traditionally underrepresented in physics, such as women, LGBT+ scientists, scientists who are Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC), disabled scientists, scientists from institutions with limited resources, and scientists from outside the United States, are especially encouraged.
Nominees for and holders of APS Honors (prizes, awards, and fellowship) and official leadership positions are expected to meet standards of professional conduct and integrity as described in the APS Ethics Guidelines. Violations of these standards may disqualify people from consideration or lead to revocation of honors or removal from office.