New fellows elected to Royal Society of Canada

The Royal Society of Canada has elected 89 new Fellows, including a UBC geochemist and a computer science professor.

Dominique A.M. Weis, a professor and researcher in the department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, serves as the Director of the Pacific Centre for Isotopic and Geochemical Research. She holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair and is the Program Director of the MAGNET initiative, which links six universities across Canada to collectively train the next generation of scientists. Her focus is the study of the distribution of elements and isotopes in Earth systems. Her work crosses traditional domains of Earth science to encompass pioneering studies tracking the source and fate of metals in the environment.

Charlotte Froese Fischer is an applied mathematician and computer scientist who has made lasting contributions to theoretical techniques for the calculation of atomic transition frequencies, decay rates, and other atomic processes through the development of computer software that has become a standard for the field. Froese Fischer is a UBC alumna who conducted studies in Mathematics and Chemistry before obtaining a PhD in Applied Mathematics and Computing at Cambridge. She served as a UBC Science faculty member from 1957 to 1968. She is currently an emerita research professor of computer science at Vanderbilt University and an Affiliate Professor in Computer Science at UBC.

The Royal Society of Canada fellowships are the highest academic accolade in the sciences, humanities and arts bestowed in this country.