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Engineering professor Nancy Sottos elected to National Academy of Sciences

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign materials science and engineering professor Nancy Sottos has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest professional honors a scientist can receive. She is among 120 members and 30 international members elected this year to recognize their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.

Sottos is the department head and Swanlund Chair of Materials Science and Engineering. She leads the Autonomous Materials Systems group at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at Illinois and is affiliated with the Materials Research Laboratorymechanical science and engineering and aerospace engineering. She joined the Illinois faculty in 1990, and her research focuses on material systems inspired by the self-healing and regenerative materials found in nature.

Sottos is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and is a newly elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She also is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Society for Experimental Mechanics and the Society of Engineering Science.

She holds bachelor’s and doctoral degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Delaware.

The complete list of individuals elected in 2022 is available online.

Editor’s notes:

To reach Nancy Sottos, call 217-333-1041; email n-sottos@illinois.edu

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