Governance

Committees

Program Committee

» 2025 Members

• Chair: Sarah Eno 
  
• Vice Chair: Hitoshi Murayama 
  
• Members: Daniel Akerib, Alexey Petrov, Andreas Kronfeld, Bogdan Dobrescu, Joel Butler, Andre de Gouvea, Dmitri Denisov, Ela Barberis, Bertrand Echenard, Eric Zimmerman, Sarah Eno, Gray Rybka, Georgia Karagiorgi, Gordon Watts, Heidi Schellman, Hitoshi Murayama, Isobel Ojalvo, Jim Hirschauer, Jason Nielsen, Kenneth Herner, Lisa Whitehead, Leonardo Rastelli, Laura Fields, Patricia McBride, Marc-Andre Pleier, Stephen Mrenna, Marco Muzio, Matthew Rudolph, Michael Turner, Nathaniel Craig, Olivia Bitter, Patrick Huber, Pedro Accioly Nogueira Machado, Stefano Profumo, Regina Demina, Robert Bernstein, Sekhar Chivukula, Saptaparna Bhattacharya, Stephen Gourlay, Sowjanya Gollapinni, Todd Adams, Tim Andeen, Tom Browder, Tao Han, Tom Shutt, Vishvas Pandey, Peter Winter, JinLong Zhang, Vaia Papadimitriou

Nominating Committee

» 2026 Members

• Chair: Tao Han
• Vice-Chair: Mitchell Soderberg
• APS Member: Kara Hoffman
• Members: Aida El-Khadra, Eric Torrence, Joseph Lykken

Mentoring Award Committee

» 2026 Members

• Chair: Craig Group
• Vice Chair: Pavel Nadolsky
• Previous Winner: Tao Han 
• Members: Stephanie Majewski, Laura Fields 

Instrumentation Award Committee

» 2025 Members

• Chair: Dan McKinsey 
• Previous Winner: Robert Swoboda 
• Previous Winner: Michalis Bachtis 
• Previous Winner: Roel Aaij 
• Members: TBA (DPF), TBA (DPF), Ben Monreal (DPF) 

J.J. and Noriko Sakurai Dissertation Award Committee

» 2026 Members

• Chair: Ethan Neil 
• Vice Chair: Patrick Meade 
• Members: Cynthia Keeler, Lance Dixon, Iain Stewart 

Panofsky Prize Committee

» 2026 Members

• Chair: Jerry Blazey 
• Vice Chair: Tim Bolton
• Previous Winner: Robert Klanner
• Previous Winner: Eckhard E. Elsen
• Members: Mary Bishai, Patty McBride 

Primakoff Early-Career Award Committee

» 2026 Members

• Chair: Carl Haber 
• Previous Winner: Kevin Kelly 
• Members: Roni Harnik, Mariangela Lisanti, Gustav Brooijmans 

Sakurai Prize Committee

» 2026 Members

• Chair: Paddy Fox
• Vice Chair: Mu-Chun Chen 
• Previous Winner: Aneesh Manohar 
• Previous Winner: Elizabeth Jenkins 
• Members: JJ Carrasco, Thomas Blum 

Tanaka Dissertation Award Committee

» 2026 Members

• Chair: David Toback 
• Vice Chair: Sam Zeller 
• Members: David Schmitz, Andrew Askew, Verena Martinez Outschoorn 

Wilson Prize Committee

» 2026 Members

• Chair: Wolfram Fischer 
• Vice Chair: Dmitri Denisov 
• Previous Winner: Alexander Zholents 
• Members: John Byrd, Lia Merminga 

Computing Panel

» 2025 Members

• Chair: Ian Fisk 
• Members: Maria Elena Monzani, Stephen Mrenna, Phiala Shanahan, Rebecca Rapp, Gavin Davies, Giordon Stark, Leslie Groer, Lothar Bauerdick, Verena Martinez Outschoorn, Ken Herner, Matthew Feickert, Peter Boyle, V. Daniel Elvira 

CPAD Panel

» 2025 Members

• Chair: Jinlong Zhang 
• Vice Chair: Jonathan Asadi 
• Members: Amy Connolly, Julia Gonski, Peter Sorensen, Sven Vahsen, Silvia Zorzetti, Nural Akchurin, Sowjanya Gollapinni, Ritoban Basu Thakur, Laura Di Vacri 

Executive Committee

» 2025 Members

• Chair: Heidi Schellman 
• Chair-Elect: Sarah Eno 
• Vice Chair: Hitoshi Murayama
• Past Chair: Andre de Gouvea 
• Sec/Tres: Ken Bloom 
• Divisional Councilor: Robert Bernstein 
• Early Career: Saptaparna Bhattacharya 
• Early Career: Samuel Homiller
• Grad Student: Olivia Bitter
• Members: Nathaniel Craig, Sarah Demers, Mu-Chun Chen , Todd Adams, Mark Messier, Vaia Papadimitriou 

Nominees and award and office holders are expected to meet standards of professional conduct and integrity as described in the APS Ethics Guidelines. Violations of these standards may disqualify people from consideration or lead to revocation of honors or removal from office.