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April 19, 2024

Thorsten Lumbsch Elected As Aaas Fellow

Thorsten Lumbsch Elected As Aaas Fellow

We are pleased to share with you that our own Dr. Thorsten Lumbsch, Vice President of Science, has been elected as fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a distinguished lifetime honor within the scientific community. The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is one of the world’s largest general scientific societies and publisher of the Science family of journals.

Thorsten Lumbsch has served as Vice President of Science & Education (now Collections, Conservation, and Research Division) since June 2017. Thorsten joined the Museum as Curator of Lichenized Fungi in 2003. In addition to his administrative and research roles, Thorsten is also active as a mentor to the scientists of tomorrow. He is a lecturer at the University of Chicago, and is active in advising graduate students there and the University of Illinois–Chicago. He also supervises postdoctoral scientists at the Museum and participated in K-12 educational programs, and served as content adviser for the exhibit Lichens: The Coolest Things You've Never Heard Of (2014–2017). Thorsten previously received the Gerhard Hess Award from the German Science Foundation for outstanding young scientists in 1999, and in 2017 he was named a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher. The new Fellows will be celebrated on September 21, 2024 in Washington, D.C.
April 19. 2024