Ten Indian American and an Indian scientist have been honored by the American Physical Society as 2025 APS Fellows recognizing excellence in physics, significant contributions to physics education and exceptional service to the APS community.

Fellowship is a distinct honor signifying recognition by one's professional peers. Each year, no more than one-half of one percent of the society's membership (excluding student members) is recognized for election to the status of Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Indian American winners are:

Ritesh Agarwal, University of Pennsylvania, Division of Materials Physics.

For pioneering contributions to materials science by engineering novel electronic and photonic materials by combining quantum geometry and topology of bandstructures with precisely defined local defects and elucidation of their properties by developing new nonlinear photogalvanic spectroscopies.

Kamal Choudhary, Johns Hopkins University, Topical Group on Data Science Fellowship.

For foundational contributions to data-driven materials discovery, including the creation of JARVIS infrastructure and machine learning tools integrating classical, quantum, and AI methods to accelerate computational and experimental materials research.

Siddhartha Das, University of Maryland, Division of Polymer Physics Fellowship.

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For fundamental discoveries of the properties of polyelectrolyte brushes, brush-supported water molecules and counterions, and liquid transport in nanochannels grafted with polyelectrolyte brushes, by pioneering the use of all-atom molecular dynamics simulations and machine learning to such systems.

Karthik Duraisamy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Division of Fluid Dynamics Fellowship.

For pioneering contributions and intellectual leadership in the development and application of machine learning methods to complex engineering flows.

Shambhu Ghimire, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Division of Laser Science Fellowship.

For pioneering work observing non-perturbative high-order harmonic generation from solids, investigating its underlying physical mechanism on attosecond timescales, and developing novel spectroscopic tools capable of probing atomic-scale structure and ultrafast dynamics in materials.

Abid Patwa, U.S. Department of Energy, Forum on International Physics Fellowship.

For leadership as a program manager at the Department of Energy, enabling significant advances in the areas of collider particle physics at CERN, and for developing multiple international agreements furthering U.S. science.

Neelima Sehgal, Stony Brook University, Division of Astrophysics Fellowship.

For pioneering work on the cosmic microwave background, especially for the conceptual development of a next-generation, high-resolution cosmic microwave background observatory.

Sumanta Tewari, Clemson University, Division of Condensed Matter Physics Fellowship.

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For pioneering contributions to the proposal and theoretical advancement of Rashba-coupled semiconductor-superconductor heterostructure as a platform for Majorana zero modes and topological quantum computation, along with significant studies on anomalous transport properties of topological systems.

Aaswath P. Raman, University of California, Los Angeles, Forum on Industrial & Applied Physics Fellowship.

For fundamental advances in thermal photonics and the development of radiative cooling, including the first demonstration of daytime radiative cooling and its integration into energy systems.

Padmini Rangamani, University of California, San Diego, Division of Biological Physics Fellowship.

For pioneering work that combines novel computational methods with detailed biological realism to decode cell shape, thus elucidating the bidirectional relationship between the mechanics of cell shape and signaling and providing novel insights to cell health and function.

Also honored was Rahul Pandit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Division of Statistical and Nonlinear Physics Fellowship.

For important contributions to challenging and fundamental problems in statistical and nonlinear physics, and for extensive service to the community.