2026 AAAS PROGRAM COMMITTEE
The AAAS Program Committee is charged with establishing the meeting theme and program tracks, reviewing proposals, and selecting sessions, topical lectures as well as performing other functions deemed necessary to develop a scientific program for the AAAS Annual Meeting.
| Theresa Maldonado AAAS President and Chair, 2026 AAAS Annual Meeting University of California | Marina Picciotto AAAS President-Elect, Charles B. G. Murphy Professor of Psychiatry and Professor in the Child Study Center, of Neuroscience and of Pharmacology Yale University |
| Lisa Chong Science Magazine Editor, Insights American Association for the Advancement of Science | Karen Emmorey Professor of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences Director, Laboratory for Language and Cognitive Neuroscience San Diego State University |
| Jennifer Frazier Science Communication Lab University of California, San Francisco | Agustin Fuentes Professor of Anthropology Princeton University |
| David Gracias Professor and Director of the PhD program, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Johns Hopkins University | Kimberly Montgomery Director of International Affairs and Science Policy American Association for the Advancement of Science |
| Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics University of California, Santa Cruz | Denis-Didier Rousseau Senior Research Scientist Ecole Normale Supérieure |
| Ken Perlin Professor of Computer Science Future Reality Lab |
