Division of Particles and Fields Fellowship
Fellowship in the American Physical Society is a great honor. In accordance with the APS Constitution, "there shall be elected to Fellowship only such Members who have contributed to the advancement of physics by independent, original research or who have rendered some other special service to the cause of the sciences." All APS members are invited to nominate deserving colleagues as potential Fellows of APS.
Rules and eligibility
Nominating a colleague for APS Fellowship is a way to commend them for excellence in physics and their service to the physics community.
To nominate a colleague for APS Fellowship, you and the additional nominating co-sponsor must be active APS members. The colleague you nominate must also be an active APS member.
Process and selection
To nominate a colleague for APS Fellowship, please include the following:
- The nominee's name
- The co-sponsor's name, and email address
- A 300 character suggested citation that does not include the nominee's name, gendered pronouns, or symbols, and begins with, "For..."
- A 2,500 character paragraph expanding on the citation to indicate the originality and significance of the contributions
- A PDF sponsor's recommendation letter
- The co-sponsor's recommendation letter, which must be uploaded by the co-sponsor
- The nominee's curriculum vitae (CV), which must include academic and employment history, professional honors, a list of principal publications only, and other significant contributions to physics
- Optional: Up to two additional PDF letters of support, which must be uploaded by the letter writers
Selection Committee
- Heidi Schellman
- Mark Messier
- Stefano Profumo
- Stephane Willocq
- David Saltzberg
- Yuri Gershtein
- Robert Bernstein
- Gary Shiu
Recent recipients
Fernando Febres Cordero
2025 recipient
For exceptional work in pioneering ideas for the calculation of scattering amplitudes and developing their application to both collider physics and gravity.
Bertrand Echenard
2025 recipient
For world-leading searches for hidden sector dark photons, dark Higgs, and other scalars in the GeV mass region with the BABAR detector, and for leading roles in new dark matter searches with LDMX and in the Mu2e experiment to search for charged lepton flavor violation with unprecedented sensitivity.
Gray Rybka
2025 recipient
For leadership in searches for axion dark matter, achieving unprecedented sensitivity to the more important axion models, and for the development of ultra-sensitive instrumentation enabling experiments such as neutrino mass measurements.
Anadi Canepa
2025 recipient
For pioneering roles in searches for supersymmetric particles; for outstanding leadership at TRIUMF and Fermilab, and on the CDF, ATLAS, and CMS collaborations, including the CMS tracker upgrade for the High-Luminosity LHC and future collider opportunities; and for broad public engagement.
Florencia Canelli
2025 recipient
For distinguished leadership in physics at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN and for significant contributions to the study of the top quark at the Large Hadron Collider and at the Tevatron at Fermilab.
APS Honors recognizes and celebrates the accomplishments of the global physics community. Guided by our core values, APS Honors encourages nominations that reflect the full range of talent, distinction, and experience in our field, and supports broad canvassing for professional achievement across diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and expertise.
Nominees for and holders of APS Honors (prizes, awards, and fellowship) and official leadership positions are expected to meet standards of professional conduct and integrity as described in the APS Ethics Standards. Violations of these standards may disqualify people from consideration or lead to revocation of honors or removal from office.
Division of Particles and Fields Fellowship
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As approved by the Council of Representatives on April 10, 2025.
APS honors exceptional contributions to the physics community, including travel support for students and early career physicists.