Mark Devlin Elected to National Academy of Sciences

Mark Devlin

Mark Devlin, Reese W. Flower Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Others from Penn to receive the honor this year included Katalin Karikó, Virginia Lee, and E. John Wherry III of the Perelman School of Medicine. The 150 total new members—120 from the United States and 30 international—are recognized for “distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.”
 
Devlin specializes in experimental cosmology. His work in the millimeter and sub-millimeter spectral bands is geared toward the study of the evolution of structure in the universe. He has led a number of ground-based and high-altitude balloon experiments including the Atacama Cosmology Telescope and the Balloon-Borne Large Aperture Telescope. Recently he was appointed co-director of the Simons Observatory, supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
 
His pioneering research has earned him an NSF Early Career Development Award and a Sloan Foundation Fellowship. His work has been published in the Astronomical Journal, the Astrophysical Journal, and IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science.
 
For the full announcement, visit https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/four-penn-elected-national-academy-sciences-0. For the full list of new NAS members, visit https://www.nasonline.org/news/2025-nas-election/.

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