Professor Paul S. Weiss has been elected a fellow of the European Academy of Sciences, Materials Science Division. The Academy is an international scientific organization composed of the world’s leading scientists, scholars, and engineers, dedicated to promoting excellence in science and technology.
Weiss holds a UC Presidential Chair at UCLA and is a distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry, bioengineering, and materials science and engineering. He began his academic career as a distinguished professor of chemistry and physics at Pennsylvania State University. After joining the UCLA faculty in 2009, he served as the director of the California NanoSystems Institute and held the Fred Kavli Chair in NanoSystems Sciences at UCLA until 2014. Weiss also served as the founding editor-in-chief of ACS Nano from 2007 to 2021.
Weiss is actively involved in startups from his own and other laboratories, with ventures spanning biotechnology, food security, energy, entertainment, and healthcare.
His recent awards and honors include the IEEE Nanotechnology Pioneer Award, the Sigma Xi William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement, and election as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Chemical Society, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, the Canadian Academy of Engineering, the Materials Research Society, the IEEE, and the National Academy of Inventors.
In the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Professor Richard Kaner is also a member of the European Academy of Sciences.
Penny Jennings, UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, penjen@g.ucla.edu.
