Gratitude to the California Institute of Technology faculty.

An accomplished astrophysicist and gifted science writer, he steps in as Caltech's tenth president with a clear love for discovery and for the people who make it happen.

A pioneer of engineering proteins with non-natural amino acids, he guards Caltech's academic heart as provost while never losing the bench scientist's care for craft.

As principal investigator of NASA's NuSTAR mission and a former division chair, she opened a sharp new window on black holes and led her colleagues with grace.

A deep thinker at the meeting point of physics and mathematics, he now leads Caltech's storied PMA division while still chasing the structure of quantum gravity.

He founded Caltech's quantum information institute and gave the field the language it thinks in, always generous in teaching the world what quantum really means.

A master builder of instruments and surveys, he found the first millisecond pulsar and first brown dwarf and helped make the transient sky a living field.

His discovery of asymptotic freedom as a graduate student explained how quarks bind, earned the 2004 Nobel Prize, and remains a cornerstone of physics.

He spent a lifetime imagining how spacetime ripples, then helped build LIGO to hear it, earning a share of the 2017 Nobel Prize and inspiring a generation.

One of the founders of modern mathematical physics, his books and theorems on Schrodinger operators taught the field, and his lifetime honors are richly earned.

He turned LIGO from a bold idea into a working observatory and a thousand-strong collaboration, sharing the 2017 Nobel Prize for hearing spacetime itself.

By letting evolution do the inventing, she reengineered how we build enzymes and won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, all while championing others in science.

A founder of bioinorganic chemistry and a beloved mentor for decades, he still chases clean solar fuels with the curiosity of a young researcher.

His theory of electron transfer, honored with the 1992 Nobel Prize, underlies chemistry from photosynthesis to solar cells, and at over a hundred he still thinks deeply.

She solved the first structure of an MHC molecule and keeps turning structural insight into better vaccines and antibodies against viruses like HIV and coronaviruses.

His Repressilator helped launch synthetic biology, and his work revealing the noise inside cells changed how we picture life at the molecular scale.

A Caltech alumna who came home to lead, she builds the tools, from tissue clearing to engineered viruses, that let us see and reach the brain's circuits.

Her algorithms helped turn a planet-sized telescope array into the first image of a black hole, and she credits the whole team every time she is thanked.

A pioneer of tensor methods and neural operators, she is bending modern AI toward real scientific discovery, from weather to fluid dynamics.

He blends learning, control, and economics to make data centers and power grids more sustainable and resilient, and mentors his students with real devotion.

A MacArthur fellow who brought psychology and neuroscience into economics, he studies how people actually decide, with honesty about how messy that is.

Through the Caltech-MIT Voting Technology Project he has spent decades making elections more trustworthy, bringing rigorous data to how democracies count.

She reads the mineral record of Mars and other worlds to trace where water once flowed, and shares that wonder widely as a leader in space exploration.

As project scientist for the Curiosity rover he helped show ancient Mars could once have been habitable, reading the deep history of two planets at once.

His discovery of Eris reshaped what we call a planet, and his search for a possible Planet Nine keeps the outer solar system full of mystery.