Daniel Gillen Named AAAS Fellow (UCI News)

Irvine, Calif., April 18, 2024 — Four University of California, Irvine researchers – working in fields as diverse as computational chemistry, statistical methods, particle physics and inorganic chemistry – have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society.

“Congratulations to the four UC Irvine researchers named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,” said Pramod Khargonekar, vice chancellor for research. “These scholars are responsible for groundbreaking research that has helped UC Irvine earn a stellar reputation among its peer institutions around the world.”

Here are UC Irvine’s new fellows and the AAAS citation for each:

• Filipp Furche, professor of chemistry – for distinguished contributions to the fields of computational and theoretical chemistry with applications to the structure and bonding of rare-earth and actinide metal complexes
• Daniel Gillen, Chancellor’s Professor and chair of statistics – for distinguished contributions to statistical methods for survival and longitudinal data, clinical trials and for impactful collaborative work in drug development, regulatory policy and epidemiology
• Timothy Tait, professor of physics & astronomy – for seminal contributions to particle physics phenomenology and model building, including understanding dark matter and how to look for it
• Jenny Yang, Chancellor’s Fellow and professor of chemistry – for distinguished contributions to the field of inorganic chemistry and reactivity, particularly the mechanistic understanding of homogeneous electrocatalysts and application of chemical principles to advance electrochemical separations

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