AAAS names Armin Sorooshian 2024 fellow
Armin Sorooshian, professor of chemical and environmental engineering, joins the American Association for the Advancement of Science's 2024 class of fellows.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science named CHEE professor Armin Sorooshian as one of its fellows for the class of 2024.
AAAS, the world's largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals, announced its 2024 class of fellows on March 27, which included four University of Arizona faculty members.
A University Distinguished Scholar, Sorooshian is recognized for contributions to the fields of atmospheric chemistry and environmental engineering, particularly for innovations of tools and methods that measure aerosol and cloud impacts on air quality.
Sorooshian joined the U of A faculty in 2009. He led a major NASA mission called ACTIVATE, for which he coordinated a team of over 130 people from various institutions. ACTIVATE researchers conducted research flights across three years over the northwest Atlantic to study particle-cloud interactions.
"I got into this occupation because of my passion for teaching and advising, something that keeps me going," Sorooshian said. "I love the opportunity to get students excited about research with fieldwork."
The AAAS also named College of Engineering faculty Jil C. Tardiff, professor of biomedical engineering, and Liesl Folks, professor of electrical and computer engineering, to its 2024 class of fellows.