SFI External Professor Raissa D’Souza (UC Davis) has been elected as a 2024 Fellow at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
D’Souza has been elected for her seminal contributions to the physics of complex systems, including abrupt phase transitions, cascading failures and network control. She is also honored for her visionary role in advancing the field of network science. Her work on network theory and complex systems has resulted in more than 130 published works and has appeared in journals such as Science, PNAS, Physical Review Letters and Nature Physics.
“My research is very interdisciplinary, spanning physics, applied math, engineering and social sciences, so seeing it recognized by AAAS as a distinguished contribution to science is a great honor,” she said in a statement issued by UC Davis Engineering. “I am very grateful to all my collaborators and students for inspiring me and for their partnership, and to the funding agencies that supported this work. Without them, I would not have been able to do this research.”
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), founded in 1848, is the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science. Fellows are chosen for their contributions to scientific and societal applications of science and elected by peers.
Read the full announcement, recognizing the 471 researchers elected to AAAS fellowship this year.