Leonid Glazman, Maryna Viazovska and Svitlana Krakovska elected to The National Academy of Sciences, USA

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In recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research physicist Leonid Glazman (Yale University, USA) has been elected as a member, and mathematician Maryna Viazovska (EPFL, Switzerland) and climate scientist Svitlana Krakovska (Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Institute) have been elected as international members of the National Academy of Sciences (USA).

Leonid Glazman graduated Kharkiv State University (now: V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine) and gained his Ph.D. from the Institute of Low Temperature Physics and Engineering at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He joined the Yale University in 2007 as professor of physics and applied physics, and has been a member of the Yale Quantum Institute since 2014.

Maryna Viazovska graduated Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Viazovska is Professor and Head of the Department of Number Theory at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. In 2022, she was awarded the prestigious Fields Medal.

Svitlana Krakovska is the head of the Laboratory of Applied Climatology at the Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Institute. She is a world-renowned expert on climate change. In 2022, the journal Nature included her in the Nature’s 10 – the list of the 10 most influential scientists in the world.

The National Academy of Sciences is a private, nonprofit institution that was established under a congressional charter signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863. It recognizes achievement in science by election to membership, and—with the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Medicine—provides science, engineering, and health policy advice to the federal government and other organizations.