Thirty-one members of the University of Chicago faculty have received distinguished service professorships or named professorships as of Jan. 1, 2025.
Rishi Arora, Ozan Candogan, Erika Claud, Anthony Fowler, Alexander Frankel, David Freedman, Seth Himelhoch, Ryan Kellogg, Tengyuan Liang, Hening Lin, John McCormick, Scott Meadow, Y. Shirley Meng, Arthur Middlebrooks, James Reidy, Veronika Rockova, Pablo Sanchez, J. David Schloen, Hans Thomalla, Joseph S. Vavra, Rebecca Willett, Ming Xiang, Dacheng Xiu and Rong Grace Zhai, have received new named professorships. Ali Hortaçsu, Erik Hurst, Adrian Johns, Josephine McDonagh, Sianne Ngai, Jacqueline Najuma Stewart and Pietro Veronesi received distinguished service professorships.
Y. Shirley Meng has been named the Liew Family Professor in Molecular Engineering.
Meng serves as the chief scientist of the Argonne Collaborative Center for Energy Storage Science (ACCESS) at Argonne National Laboratory and the director of Energy Storage Research Alliance (ESRA), an innovation hub funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. She held the Zable Chair Professor in Energy Technologies at UC San Diego from 2017-2022 and founded the Sustainable Power and Energy Center (SPEC) in 2016.
Meng has received several prestigious awards, including the ACS Research Excellence in Electrochemistry, ECS Battery Division Research Award, the C3E technology and innovation award, the Faraday Medal of Royal Chemistry Society, International Battery Association IBA Research Award, C.W. Tobias Young Investigator Award of the Electrochemical Society, and an NSF CAREER Award.
She is an elected fellow of the Electrochemical Society, a fellow of the Materials Research Society, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is the author or co-author of more than 320 peer-reviewed journal articles, two book chapters and eight issued patents.
—Article adapted from an original release on the UChicago News website