An Ivy League research university founded by Benjamin Franklin, home to the Wharton School and the Perelman School of Medicine, and birthplace of mRNA vaccines and CAR-T therapy.
24 professors and academic leaders celebrated so far, cited on every card. In pursuit of every professor, everywhere.
President of the University of Pennsylvania
Office of the President
An endocrinologist and former medical-school dean, he stepped up to steady Penn through a turbulent stretch and now leads it forward with calm, science-grounded judgment.
Provost of the University of Pennsylvania
Office of the Provost
An anthropologist and filmmaker who once led Annenberg, he shapes Penn's academic life with a rare blend of scholarly depth and generous curiosity about people.
Dean and Reliance Professor of Management and Private Enterprise
Management
The first woman and first person of color to lead Wharton, she brings a scholar's expertise in crisis leadership to guiding one of the world's great business schools.
Saul P. Steinberg Professor of Management
Management
Wharton's top-rated professor for years running, he has helped millions rethink work, generosity, and their own potential through teaching and writing that is both rigorous and kind.
James G. Dinan Endowed Professor; Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions
Operations, Information and Decisions
Her research on how people actually change their habits, shared generously in How to Change and her podcast, helps real people follow through on what matters to them.
Russell E. Palmer Professor Emeritus of Finance
Finance
Across 45 years at Wharton and the classic Stocks for the Long Run, he taught generations of students and everyday investors to think clearly and patiently about markets.
Nemirovsky Family Dean of Penn Engineering
Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
A pioneer of aerial swarm robotics whose flying-robot research reshaped the field, he now leads Penn Engineering with the same drive that made his labs legendary.
Presidential Associate Professor
Bioengineering and Microbiology
One of the youngest tenured professors in Penn's history, he uses AI to design entirely new antibiotics, racing against resistance to protect future patients.
National Center Professor of Management and Technology
Computer and Information Science
A leader in machine learning theory, he co-wrote The Ethical Algorithm to insist that fairness and privacy be built into the AI systems shaping our lives.
Henry Salvatori Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science
Computer and Information Science
His foundational work on differential privacy gives us a mathematical way to learn from data while protecting the individuals inside it, a quietly vital contribution to the AI age.
Associate Professor of Computer and Information Science
Computer and Information Science
A generous teacher and NLP researcher, he helped build the tools and open datasets behind modern language technology and mentors the next generation of AI builders.
Roberts Family Professor in Vaccine Research; Director, Penn Institute for RNA Innovation
Medicine
His decades of patient mRNA research with Katalin Kariko earned the 2023 Nobel Prize and gave the world its COVID-19 vaccines, saving countless lives.
Adjunct Professor of Neurosurgery
Neurosurgery
She spent decades believing in modified mRNA when few others would fund it, and that perseverance, honored with the 2023 Nobel Prize, made mRNA vaccines possible.
Richard W. Vague Professor in Immunotherapy; Director, Center for Cellular Immunotherapies
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
His pioneering CAR-T cell therapy turned a patient's own immune cells into a cure for once-untreatable leukemias, opening a whole new era of cancer treatment.
John H. Ware 3rd Endowed Professor in Alzheimer's Research; Director, Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Her landmark work on the misfolded proteins behind Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and ALS built the foundation for understanding these diseases and the hope of treating them.
Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Physics
Physics and Astronomy
His theoretical prediction of topological insulators opened an entire new field of physics, earning honors including the 2026 Lorentz Medal for work of lasting depth.
David and Lyn Silfen University Professor in Genetics and Biology
Genetics and Biology
By building the world's largest database of African genetic diversity, she has made human genomics more complete and more equitable for everyone.
Richard Perry University Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering
Chemistry
His foundational methods for making uniform nanocrystals and quantum dots underpin technologies from brighter displays to new materials, work recognized as Nobel-class.
Rosa Lee and Egbert Chang Professor of Psychology
Psychology
A former teacher turned psychologist, her research on grit and self-control, and her nonprofit Character Lab, help students and educators nurture perseverance.
George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology
Sociology, Africana Studies, and Law
A 2024 MacArthur Fellow whose scholarship exposes how race shapes law, medicine, and social systems, she gives voice and dignity to families too often overlooked.
Dean and Bernard G. Segal Professor of Law
Law
The first woman to lead Penn's law school in its 170-plus year history, she is a historian of constitutional and administrative law guiding legal education toward accessibility.
Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication; Director, Annenberg Public Policy Center
Annenberg School for Communication
Co-founder of FactCheck.org and a leading scholar of public discourse, she has spent a career defending honest, evidence-based communication in democracy and science.
Margaret Bond Simon Dean of Nursing
Nursing
A scholar of health promotion in Latino communities, she leads Penn Nursing with a lifelong commitment to reducing health disparities and serving those most in need.
Claire M. Fagin Leadership Professor of Nursing; Director, Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research
Nursing
Her rigorous evidence that safe nurse staffing saves lives has reshaped hospital policy worldwide, honoring the profession and the patients it protects.
This directory is unbounded, in pursuit of every professor at every university, everywhere. Every person is real, public, and cited; anyone featured can ask to be updated or removed.
A celebration of the faculty and academic leaders of University of Pennsylvania, assembled entirely from public information as an act of credit and gratitude. It is not a claim of endorsement, affiliation, sponsorship, or partnership by anyone featured or by the university. Every person is real and publicly documented, with a cited source of truth on their card; we never invent a person or a claim, and we prize accuracy over speed. Anyone featured can ask to be updated or removed at any time. Names and marks belong to their owners.