Professor Xiaosong Li was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for his contributions to the development and application of time-dependent quantum theory and relativistic electronic structure theory, and for advancing educational pathways and diversity in STEM.
Li conducts research at the intersection of physics, chemistry, materials science, mathematics and scientific computing, and he has developed widely used computational software. A UW faculty member since 2005, Dr. Li's honors include a Sloan Research Fellowship, the NSF CAREER Award, the American Chemical Society Jack Simons Award in Theoretical Physical Chemistry and the University of Washington Distinguished Teaching Award. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) and the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), and an elected member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences.
Li is the Larry R. Dalton Endowed Chair in Chemistry and Associate Dean for Research in the College of Arts & Sciences. In addition to his faculty appointments in the Departments of Chemistry, he is a Lab Fellow at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
For more information about the UW personnel elected into the 2024 class of AAAS Fellows, see “Five UW researchers named AAAS Fellows,” by UW News.
The list of 2024 Fellows, as well as a list of all past and present Fellows, is available on the AAAS Fellows Listing and more information about this honor can be found in the AAAS announcement.
Congratulations, Prof. Li!