Below is a list of our Miller members who have recently received awards or who have been highlighted in the media. Also, the Miller Newsletters is another way to find out what is currently happening in our Miller Community.

  • Michael Marletta (Visiting Miller Professor Fall 2000, Chemistry) inducted into Class of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) of Fellows for his groundbreaking work in gas sensing, which has practical applications in oxygen delivery.

  • Michel Talagrand (Visiting Miller Professor 1996), a mathematician who developed formulas to make random processes more predictable and helped to solve an iconic model of complex phenomena has won the 2024 Abel Prize, one of the field’s most coveted awards. He received the prize for his “contributions to probability theory and functional analysis, with outstanding applications in mathematical physics and statistics.”

  • Augusto Ghiotto (Miller Fellow 2023-2026) was named the recipient of the 2024 Richard L. Greene Dissertation Award in Experimental Condensed Matter or Materials Physics "For the discovery of a continuous metal-insulator transition and quantum critical behavior in Moire transition metal dichalcogenides."

  • Lingfu Zhang (Miller Fellow 2022-2025) was named a winner of the Bernoulli Society New Researcher Award 2024! The award recognizes the work of outstanding young researchers in the fields of Mathematical Statistics and Probability.

  • Former Miller Professor Bin Yu is a co-author on a MIT Press book entitled "Veridical Data Science: The Practice of Responsible Data Analysis and Decision Making". Veridical Data Science demonstrates how to use the principles of predictability, computability, and stability to create and evaluate trustworthy data-driven results by conducting stress tests at every stage of the data science life cycle.

  • The 2024 Martin Meyerson Berkeley Faculty Research Lectures, a 111-year-old campus tradition celebrating excellence in research at UC Berkeley, will take place on Monday, March 4 and Wednesday, May 1. Inez Fung (Miller Professor 2016 - 2017, Earth & Planetary Science / ESPM) is one of this year’s faculty honorees. She will present a Lecture “On the CO2 Trail.”

  • Three former Miller Fellows: Soonwon Choi (2018 - 2021, Physics), Anna Ho (2020-2022, Astronomy) and Yang Yang (2016 - 2018, Chemistry) are among the 2024 Sloan Research Fellows.

  • The new technique, called Precise RNA-mediated INsertion of Transgenes, or PRINT, that leverages the ability of some retrotransposons to efficiently insert entire genes into the genome without affecting other genome functions was developed in the laboratory of Kathleen Collins (Miller Professor 2011, Molecular & Cell Biology, Executive Committee 2014-2015).

  • Omar Yaghi (Visiting Miller Professor 2009, Chemistry) was awarded the renowned Science for the Future Ernest Solvay Prize by Syensqo for pioneering reticular materials that can help combat the impacts of climate change.

  • Carly Schissel (Miller Fellow 2022-2025, Chemistry) was awarded the WCC Pfizer Emergent Leader Award that recognizes up to eight outstanding individuals in the second year and above of their graduate studies or undertaking post-doctoral research.

  • Jose D Fuentes (Visiting Miller Professor Fall 2023, ESPM) was elected to American Geophysical Union and received the Ambassador Award for "his contributions in advancing the understanding of the processes controlling gas exchange between vegetated landscapes and the atmosphere."

  • Heino Falcke (Visiting Miller Professor 2006) was awarded the 2023 Balzan Prize for High resolution images: from planetary to cosmic objects "For his fundamental research that has made it possible to image the surroundings of a black hole with high precision..."

  • The new center, the Pines Magnetic Resonance Center (PMRC) in honor of Alex Pines (Miller Professor 1977-1978, 1998-1999, 2000), advances Berkeley’s prominent position in the vital methodology of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR).

  • Hitoshi Murayama (Miller Professor 2006) led the Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel, or P5, to lay out a road map for the future of the revolutionary particle collider that could be built on American soil.

  • On November 27th, the Miller Institute held its Annual Fall Dinner, known as "Evenings of Conversation." The guest speaker was Dr. Tony DeRose, Chief Technical Officer, X in a Box LLC. The title of his talk was "Math in the Movies — A Story of Technology Transfer.”

  • Yang Yang (Miller Fellow 2016-2018) was awarded a 2023 Fellowship for Science and Engineering from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. The Yang Research Group combines expertise in synthetic biology and synthetic chemistry to develop new strategies to discover and evolve novel modes of biocatalysis that are not only new-to-nature but also new-to-chemistry.

  • Umesh Vazirani (Miller Professor 1999-2000, 2018-2019) was awarded $2.4M grant from DOE explore ways to advance production-ready quantum computing.

  • Feng Wang (Miller Professor 2021-2022) received the Frank Isakson Prize for Optical Effects in Solids “for pioneering and trail-blazing works on the exploration of new physics and exotic phenomena in 1D and 2D quantum materials that have guided advances in the field." This award recognizes outstanding optical research that lead to breakthroughs in the condensed matter sciences.

  • David Britt (Visiting Miller Professor 2023) was inducted into American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

  • Alanna Schepartz (Miller Professor 2022-2023) is among the first cohort of ARC Innovation Investigators. This award provides funding to researchers to pursue visionary ideas in curiosity-driven ambitious science research.

  • John Cardy (Visiting Miller Professor Fall 2015) was named a co-recipient of the 2024 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for “profound contributions to statistical physics and quantum field theory, with diverse and far-reaching applications in different branches of physics and mathematics.”