Fellow

Costas Soukoulis, professor of physics and astronomy at Iowa State University and senior physicist with the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Ames Laboratory, has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

A faculty member at Iowa State since 1984, Soukoulis was honored for notable pioneering contributions to the understanding of the localization of light, of random lasers, and of photonic crystals.

Each year, the AAAS elects members whose "efforts on behalf of the advancement of science or its applications are scientifically or socially distinguished."

Soukoulis was also elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1991 and held an Alexander Von Humboldt Fellowship in 1991. He received an Energy 100 Award and Science 100 Award from the DOE and in 1992, was recognized by the DOE’s Materials Sciences Division for "outstanding scientific accomplishment in solid state physics."

He received Iowa State's Outstanding Achievement in Research Award in 2001 and the equivalent honor from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in 2000.