The 2022 class of Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) includes four investigators from The Ohio State University, with two scientists coming from the College of Arts and Sciences.

The AAAS Fellowship, recognizing scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications, is one of the most prestigious honors a U.S. scientist can receive. Fellows are elected by their academic peers.

“This year’s Fellows are an exceptional class of leaders in their respective disciplines and representative of Ohio State’s world-class faculty,” said Peter Mohler, Ohio State’s vice president for research. “I am pleased that their scholarly pursuits and achievements are being recognized by a distinguished group of scientists, engineers and innovators as part of the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s newest inductees.”

The College of Arts and Sciences' newest Fellows are Mohit Randeria, professor of physics, and Laura Wagner, professor of psychology.

Randeria was awarded the Fellowship for contributions to the theory of BCS-BEC crossover, to the understanding of angle-resolved photoemission of cuprate superconductors, and for providing rigorous bounds on the superconducting transition temperature in two-dimensional materials.

“It is a great honor to be elected a Fellow of the AAAS for my work on quantum materials theory,” Randeria said. “I am delighted that, in addition to my research over the past decades, the citation also recognizes some of my very recent contributions.”

Wagner received the Fellowship for contributions to language and conceptual development, and for broadening participation in publicly engaged science.

“I'm thrilled that the model of combining research and public engagement that we use at the Language Sciences Research Lab is being recognized and that I am being honored among such distinguished scholars,” Wagner said.

The 2022 class includes 505 scientists, engineers and innovators spanning 24 scientific disciplines. The new Fellows will be celebrated in Washington, D.C., this summer.