Uta Paszkowski elected to the National Academy of Sciences

Congratulations to Professor Uta Paszkowski, Acting Director of The Crop Science Centre and head of the Cereal Symbiosis group, who has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, USA.

On learning of her election, Uta responded “I still cannot believe that this is true and thank the NAS for the recognition of our work, but even more I feel an immense gratitude to my team for all the wonderful science that we do together.”

Her election is in recognition for her significant and sustained contributions to our understanding of how symbiotic relationships between plants and fungi form and function. Such symbioses have huge nutritional benefit to plants.

Her approach of using cereals to probe these relationships has provided unique insights that are relevant both to our understanding of how organisms interact with one another, but also to improving nutrition of our major staple crops.

The National Academy of Sciences announced the election of 120 members and 30 international members in April 2025, in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.

Those elected bring the total number of active members to 2,662 and the total number of international members to 556. International members are nonvoting members of the Academy, with citizenship outside the United States.