APS Fellowship

Division of Plasma Physics 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

  • Carolyn Kuranz (Chair)
  • Stephanie Diem
  • Iain Boyd
  • Frank Graziani
  • Michael Cuneo
  • Franklin Dollar
  • Anthony Leonard
  • Alexander Schekochihin
  • David Turnbull
  • Mickey Wade
  • John Foster
  • Felix Parra
  • Katharina Stapelmann
  • Dmitri Uzdensky

Recent recipients

Carlos Paz-Soldan

2024 recipient

For groundbreaking contributions and scientific leadership in the understanding and optimization of tokamak plasmas for fusion energy, including non-axisymmetric magnetic fields, plasma shaping, and control of relativistic electrons.

Daniel Casey

2024 recipient

For outstanding contributions to the understanding of the stagnation conditions required to achieve ignition.

Daniel Clark

2024 recipient

For extensive contributions to inertial confinement fusion state-of-the art implosion modeling, innovative ignition designs, novel applications of laser-plasma interactions, and the scientific understanding of hydrodynamic instabilities.

David Humphreys

2024 recipient

For sustained leadership in developing the field of model-based dynamic control of magnetically confined plasmas, and for providing important and timely contributions to the understanding of tokamak stability, disruptions, and halo current physics.

Emily A. Belli

2024 recipient

For pioneering contributions to first-principles simulations of transport and turbulence in strongly rotating plasmas, including the elucidation of critical impurity transport issues associated with metal walls and the reversal of simple hydrogenic isotope scaling laws in tokamak edge turbulence.

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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.

Division of Plasma Physics Fellowship

Type
APS Fellowship
Category
Unit
Sponsor
APS Division of Plasma Physics (DPP)

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