Two physics professors from the University of Wisconsin-Madison's College of Letters & Science have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Eriksson
Mark A. Eriksson, professor of physics, was honored "for innovative and important contributions to the understanding and development of nanodevices for spintronics and quantum information processing applications."
Eriksson, whose lab studies nanostructure fabrication and measurement, quantum computing and semiconductor physics, has been a member of the Department of Physics faculty since 1999.
Gary Shiu, professor of physics, was chosen "for pioneering contributions to string phenomenology and cosmology, for leadership in connecting fundamental theory to experiment, and for promoting basic science in the U.S. and Asia."
Shiu
Shiu joined the Department of Physics in 2002 and says his research "aims at understanding the deep connection between string theory, particle physics, and cosmology."
Since 1874, members of AAAS, the world's largest general scientific society, have elected fellows based on their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science. The fellows will be formally inducted in February at the AAAS Fellows Forum during the AAAS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.
Visit the university's news website to see the full list of UW-Madison's honorees.