Chicago Quantum Exchange researchers Aida El-Khadra and Vladimir M. Shalaev have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies.
El-Khadra is a theoretical particle physicist using quantum simulations to study novel quantum field theories, a new direction in her broad body of research. She is Simons Foundation Fellow in Theoretical Physics, a fellow for the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the American Physical Society and was the 2024 Schrödinger Visiting Professor at ETH Zürich, a Distinguished Scholar of Fermilab and a Sloan Foundation Fellow.
Shalaev, the Bob and Anne Burnett Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is internationally recognized for his work in quantum photonics, plasmonics and optical metamaterials. His research has shaped advances in telecommunications, imaging, sensing and quantum computing. Shalaev is a pioneer in nanophotonics and metamaterials, known for his foundational theories and experimental designs.
El-Khadra and Shalaev join 250 artists, scholars, scientists, and leaders in the public, nonprofit, and private sectors named to the society’s 2025 class.
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