Faculty honors and awards

Berkeley Engineering faculty receive the most prestigious awards and honors bestowed by academic and professional societies, foundations and other civic organizations. Among these are 75 active and emeriti faculty who hold membership in the National Academy of Engineering.

Photo of Kristin Persson, Daniel M. Tellep Distinguished Professor of materials science and engineering at UC Berkeley and a senior faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Kristin Persson among 11 Berkeley faculty elected to AAAS

January 31, 2023

Professor of materials science and engineering and director of Berkeley Lab’s Molecular Foundry elected a lifetime fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for her work on the Materials Project

UC Berkeley physics and engineering professor Ramamoorthy Ramesh has been elected to the National Academy of Inventors.

Ramamoorthy Ramesh elected to the National Academy of Inventors

December 8, 2022

Berkeley engineer and physicist receives the highest professional distinction awarded to academic inventors for his pioneering work in materials science

Michael Yartsev in his lab with blue and yellow light simulating bat flight paths.

Yartsev wins Neuroscience Young Investigator Award

November 14, 2022

Bioengineering professor Michael Yartsev named 2022 Young Investigator by the Society for Neuroscience in recognition of his work on the neural complexity of free-flying bats