New APS Rising Stars

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The APS Rising Star designation is presented to outstanding APS Members in the earliest stages of their research career post-PhD. Drawing its name from an Observer editorial series that featured exemplars of the exciting work being done by the field’s newest researchers, this designation recognizes researchers whose innovative work has already advanced the field and signals great potential for their continued contributions. 

The following are the most recent members to be named APS Rising Stars and were nominated in 2025: 

• Brian Albanese, Texas A&M University 

• Analia Albuja, Northeastern University 

• Olivia Atherton, University of California, Riverside 

• Annabelle Atkin, Purdue University 

• Vladislav Ayzenberg, Temple University 

• Aldo Barrita, Michigan State University 

• Emorie Beck, University of California, Davis 

• Patrick Beymer, University of Cincinnati 

• Cassandra Boness, University of New Mexico 

• Emma Bradshaw, Australian Catholic University 

• Alexis Brieant, University of Vermont 

• Natasha Chaku, Indiana University, Bloomington 

• Brian Chin, Trinity College 

• Noah Keita Christophe, McGill University 

• Nicholas Coles, University of Florida 

• Henry Cowan, Michigan State University 

• Rebecca Cox, Washington University in St. Louis 

• Heather Davis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 

• Rachit Dubey, University of California, Los Angeles 

• Iony Ezawa, University of Southern California 

• Chuanji Gao, Nanjing Normal University 

• Xiaoxue Gao, East China Normal University 

• Anton Gollwitzer, BI Norwegian Business School 

• Ivan Grahek, Brown University 

• Yu (Hannah) Hao, Ningbo University 
  
• Raha Hassan, University of Western Ontario

• Jessica Hua, University of California, San Francisco 

• Sa-kiera Hudson, University of California, Berkeley 

• Hirotaka Imada, Royal Holloway, University of London 

• Ka Ip, University of Minnesota 

• Russell Kabir, Hiroshima University 

• Deanna Kaplan, Emory School of Medicine 

• Erika Kirgios, The University of Chicago  

• M. Alexandra Kredlow, Tufts University 

• Karson Kung, The University of Hong Kong 

• Thomas Le, Bryn Mawr College 

• Hun Whee Lee, The Ohio State University 

• Ran Liu, Beijing Normal University 

• Lauren Luther, University of Alabama at Birmingham 

• Anyi Ma, University of Wisconsin- Madison 

• Jennifer MacCormack, University of Virginia 

• Anne Maheux, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

• Aura Ankita Mishra, North Carolina State University 

• Daniel Moriarity, University of Pennsylvania 

• Ariel Mosley, University of California, Davis 

• Alexandra Moussa-Tooks, Indiana University, Bloomington 

• Matthias Nau, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 

• Brett Neely, University of Nebraska- Lincoln 

• Tehila Nugiel, Florida State University 

• Kate Nussenbaum, Boston University 

• Roman Palitsky, Emory University 

• Yuri Pavlov, University of Alabama/ University of Tübingen 

• Aaron Reuben, University of Virginia 

• Shawn Rhoads, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 

• Alexandra Rodman, Northeastern University 

• Nina Rouhani, University of Southern California 

• Cristina Salvador, Duke University 

• Pascal Schlechter, University of Münster 

• Brian Schwartz, University of Trier

• Dingjing Shi, Georgia Institute of Technology

• Sarah Shi Hui Wong, Singapore Management University 

• Stylianos Syropoulos, Arizona State University 

• Sanaz Talaifar, Imperial College London 

• Yuen Yan Tam, University of Toronto 

• Jacob Teeny, Northwestern University 

• Catherine Thomas, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 

• Adela Timmons, University of Texas at Austin 

• Allon Vishkin, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology 

• Jan Gerrit Voelkel, Cornell University 

• Heidi Vuletich, University of Denver 

• Cindel White, York University 

• Amanda Wright, University of Zurich 

• Jordan Wylie, Cornell University 

• Tomiko Yoneda, University of California, Davis 

• Meltem Yucel, Michigan State University 

• Noga Zaslavsky, New York University 

• Martin Zettersten, University of California, San Diego