National Academy of Sciences Selects the 2025 Kavli Fellows

The National Academy of Sciences announces the selection of eighty-seven of the nation’s brightest young scientists from industry, academia, and government to take part in the National Academy of Sciences’ U.S. and international Kavli Frontiers of Science symposia for 2025. These three-day events bring together scientists who are 45 or younger and engaged in exceptional research in a variety of disciplines. A committee of NAS members selected the participants from among young researchers who have already made recognized contributions to science, including recipients of major fellowships and awards. Attendees at these symposia are designated Kavli Fellows.

Beginning in 1989, the Frontiers of Science symposium series has provided a forum for the future leaders in U.S. science to share ideas across disciplines and to build contacts and networks that will prove useful as they advance in their careers. More than 6,800 young scientists have attended to date, 354 of whom have been elected to the NAS and twenty of whom have been awarded the Nobel Prize.

In 2025, the National Academy of Sciences will hold three Kavli Frontiers of Science symposia that included the US national symposium, an international bilateral symposium with Israel and a trilateral symposium with Japan and Germany.

The U.S. symposium will take place on March 6-8 at the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering in Irvine, California. The meeting will cover a variety of topics in sessions focusing on batteries to power the world, obesity, quantum, reproductive justice, seeing the world through different lenses, from organisms to superorganisms: major transitions in biological complexity, who is space for? and wildfire management.  A complete symposium program with may be found here.

The following scientists were selected for the U.S. symposium:

• Robyn Adams, Texas Tech University
• Biafra Ahanonu, University of California, San Francisco
• Hoor Al Maazmi, UAE Space Agency
• Amber Alhadeff, Monell Chemical Senses Center
• Nina Balke, North Carolina State University
• Arkarup Banerjee, Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory
• Lisa Beutler, Northwestern University
• Tripti Bhattacharya, Syracuse University
• Holly Bik, University of Georgia
• Doug Blackiston, Tufts University and Harvard Wyss Institute
• Jessica Bolton, Georgia State University
• Katlin Bowman Adamczyyk, U.S. Geological Survey
• Jennifer Bridwell-Rabb, University of Michigan
• Shane Campbell-Staton, Princeton University
• Lane Carasik, Virginia Commonwealth University
• Luca Carlone, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Kai Chen, Yale University
• Santina Contreras, University of Southern California
• Stephanie Diem, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Benika Dixon, Texas A&M University
• Thao Dominy, Clemson University
• Leonardo Dos Santos, Space Telescope Science Institute
• Nir Drayman, University of California, Irvine
• Jennifer Dunn, Northwestern University
• Joseph Dunsmoor, University of Texas-Austin
• Zakir Durumeric, Stanford University
• Richard Gawne, Nevada State Museum
• Elena L. Glassman, Harvard University
• Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Varchas Gopalaswamy, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester
• Nicola Grissom, University of Minnesota
• Brian Harvey, University of Washington
• Jonathan Hawkings, University of Pennsylvania
• Rebecca Jensen-Clem, University of California, Santa Cruz
• Jallicia Jolly, Amherst College
• Gavin M. Jones, USDA Forest Service
• Dvir Kafri, Google
• Sarah Kocher, Princeton University / HHMI
• Jessica Kolopenuk, University of Alberta
• Praveen Kumar, Boston College
• Timothy Linksvayer, Arizona State University
• Qiong Ma, Boston College
• Shaama Mallikarjun Sharada, University of Southern California
• Kaighin McColl, Harvard University
• Alexander McLeod, University of Minnesota
• Monica McLemore, New York University
• Kay McMonigal, University of Alaska Fairbanks
• Zaman Mirzadeh, Barrow Neurological Institute
• Christopher Moore, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
• Saskia Mordijck, College of William and Mary
• Derrick Morton, University of Southern California
• Gregory Mosby, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• Laura Motta, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• Thomas Naselaris, University of Minnesota
• Ren Ng, University of California, Berkeley
• Edward O’Brien, Pennsylvania State University
• Juliana Pacheco Duarte, University of Madison-Wisconsin
• Tod Pascal, University of California, San Diego
• Theodore Pavlic, Arizona State University
• Orit Peleg, University of Colorado Boulder
• Angeline Pendergrass, Cornell University
• Sam Peng, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
• Luc Peterson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• Carlos Portela, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Carlee Purdum, University of Houston
• William Ratcilff, Georgia Tech
• Meredith Rawls, University of Washington / Vera C. Rubin Observatory
• Pedro Saenz, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• Ricardo J. Samms, Eli Lilly and Company
• Benjamin Schoefer, University of California, Berkeley
• Allyson Sgro, HHMI Janelia Research Campus
• Mei Shen, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Liat Shenhav, Rockefeller University
• Emmy Smith, Johns Hopkins University
• Leo Stein, University of Mississippi
• Dan Steingart, Columbia University
• Mubarak Hussain Syed, University of New Mexico
• Lidya Tarhan, Yale University
• Jacob Taylor, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
• Johanna Teske, Carnegie Institution for Science
• Edward Twomey, John Hopkins University
• Sagar Vijay, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Helen Vuong, University of Minnesota
• James Whitfield, Dartmouth College
• Melville Wohlgemuth, University of Arizona
• Anqi Wu, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Huiyuan Zhu, University of Virginia

The Kavli Frontiers of Science symposium is sponsored by the Kavli Foundation. The US symposium is also supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation under Grant No. G-2024-23965. Additional funding is also provided from the National Academy of Sciences.

The National Academy of Sciences is a private organization of scientists and engineers dedicated to the furtherance of science and its use for the general welfare. It was established in 1863 by a congressional act of incorporation signed by Abraham Lincoln that calls on the Academy to act as an official adviser to the federal government, upon request, in any matter of science or technology.

Meeting programs and more information about Kavli Frontiers of Science are available here.