March 27, 2025 | UW News
CEI Member Faculty Xiaosong Li, Larry R. Dalton Endowed Chair in Chemistry and Associate Dean for Research in the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Washington (UW), is one of five UW faculty members named 2024 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Li is among 471 newly elected fellows from around the world, who are recognized for their “scientifically and socially distinguished achievements” in science and engineering. A tradition dating back to 1874, election as an AAAS Fellow is a distinguished lifetime honor within the scientific community.
Li is honored 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. He conducts research at the intersection of physics, chemistry, materials science, mathematics and scientific computing, and he has developed widely used computational software.
Li has been a UW faculty member since 2005, and holds a joint appointment at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), where he was named a Lab Fellow in 2020.
His honors include a 2009 NSF CAREER Award, a 2011 Sloan Research Fellowship, the 2020 UW Distinguished Teaching Award (2020), and 2024 Jack Simons Award in Theoretical Physical Chemistry of the American Chemical Society (ACS). He is a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) and the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), and was elected as a member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences (WSAS) in 2022.
Contact Prof. Li at xsli@uw.edu.
