Teri W. Odom, Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Joan Husting Madden and William H. Madden, Jr. Professor of Chemistry, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), according to the Academy’s announcement on May 2nd.
Odom is an expert in designing structured nanoscale materials with exceptional optical and physical properties. Odom has pioneered a suite of multi-scale nanofabrication tools that has resulted in flat optics that can manipulate light at the nanoscale and beat the diffraction limit, plasmon-based nanoscale lasers that exhibit tunable color, and hierarchical substrates that show controlled wetting and super-hydrophobicity.
In addition to Weinberg’s chemistry department, Odom is a professor of materials science and engineering at the McCormick School of Engineering and a member of the International Institute for Nanotechnology and the Chemistry of Life Processes Institute. Odom holds membership with the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Chemical Society, the Materials Research Society, the American Physical Society and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Royal Society of Chemistry.
The NAS is a private, non-profit society of scholars charged with providing independent and objective advice to the U.S. government on matters related to science and technology. Members are elected by their peers in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. This year, 120 members and 23 international members were elected.