Heremans Named AAAS Fellow

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Professor and Ohio Eminent Scholar Joseph Heremans has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for his distinguished contributions to the field of thermal engineering, specifically the development of high-efficiency thermoelectric materials and the discovery of thermal spin-polarization in semiconductors. He and 19 other Ohio State faculty members, who have also been elected as AAAS Fellows, will be honored at a February 18 AAAS ceremony in Vancouver, British Columbia.

The AAAS Fellow recognition is bestowed on individuals who have been nominated by peers, in the same academic discipline, for their meritorious efforts to advance science or its applications. Ohio State has now achieved a decade of leadership in election of AAAS Fellows.