Kris McNeill elected as AAAS Fellow
Kris McNeill has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Election as a AAAS Fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers.
As part of the Institute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics (IBP) at ETH Zurich, Kristopher McNeill was elected as an AAAS Fellow for his distinguished contributions to the field of environmental chemistry, particularly in the areas of aquatic photochemistry and metal-mediated dehalogenation reactions. Overall, 396 members have been awarded this honor by AAAS.
Long tradition of AAAS Fellows
The tradition of AAAS Fellows began in 1874. Currently, members can be considered for the rank of Fellow if nominated by the steering groups of the Association’s 24 sections, by any three Fellows who are current AAAS members, or by the AAAS chief executive officer. Fellows must have been continuous members of AAAS for four years by the end of the calendar year in which they are elected.
The new Fellows have been presented on Saturday, 17 February during the 2018 AAAS Annual Meeting in Austin, Texas.
- Personal profile of external pageProf. Kris McNeill
- The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal external pageScience as well as Science Translational Medicine, Science Signaling, Science Advances, Science Immunology, and Science Robotics. AAAS was founded in 1848 and includes nearly 250 affiliated societies and academies of science, serving 10 million individuals. Another service of the association is the science-news website external pageEurekAlert!.