Chemistry Professor Stephan Link is one of three faculty members at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who have been named 2024 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society.

Link and animal sciences professors Isaac Cann and Matthew Wheeler are among the 471 scientists, engineers and innovators chosen by their peers for their scientifically and socially distinguished achievements.

Link specializes in plasmonic nanoparticles — metallic particles with abilities to scatter and absorb light that make them useful for applications from solar cells to imaging to cancer treatment — and techniques for seeing and studying them. Link was chosen “for distinguished accomplishments in steady-state and time-resolved spectroscopy and microscopy of nanostructures relating radiative, nonradiative, chiroptical and mechanical properties to the morphology of individual and coupled plasmonic nanoparticles.” Link is the Charles W. and Genevieve M. Walton Professor in chemistry, and he also is affiliated with the department of electrical and computer engineering and the Materials Research Laboratory.

Link joined the Illinois chemistry faculty in January 2024.