January 5, 2026
Seven CEI Member Faculty and two Affiliate Faculty are among the University of Washington researchers named to the Highly Cited Researchers 2025 list from Clarivate:
Boeing-Steiner Professor of Materials Science & Engineering
Assistant Professor of Materials Science & Engineering
Associate Vice Provost for Research Cyberinfrastructure
Professor of Physics
CEI Chief Scientist
B. Seymour Rabinovitch Endowed Chair in Chemistry
Washington Research Foundation Innovation Chair in Clean Energy
Campbell Chair Professor of Materials Science & Engineering
Professor of Chemical Engineering
Robert J. Campbell Chair in Materials Science & Engineering and Department Chair
Professor of Physics
Boeing Martin Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Boeing Professor of Physics
Professor of Materials Science & Engineering
Vice Dean, UW College of Engineering
Kyocera Corporation Chair in Ceramic Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering
Also named to the 2025 list are CEI Affiliate Faculty Alex K.Y. Jen, UW materials science & engineering professor emeritus, and CEI Graduate Fellow Kyle Seyler, now an assistant professor of optical sciences at the University of Arizona.
Clarivate’s annual list identifies researchers who demonstrated significant influence in their chosen field or fields through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last decade. Their names are drawn from the publications that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and publication year in the Web of Science citation index.
Highly Cited Researchers demonstrate significant and broad influence in their fields of research. The total list includes 7,131 awards from more than 1,300 institutions in 60 countries and regions. This small fraction of the global researcher population contributes disproportionately to extending the frontiers of knowledge and contributing to innovations that make the world healthier, more sustainable and which drive societal impact, according to Clarivate.
The methodology that determines the “who’s who” of influential researchers is drawn from data and analysis performed by bibliometric experts and data scientists at the Institute for Scientific Information at Clarivate.
