Bennett A. Landman, Stevenson Chair and University Distinguished Professor at Vanderbilt, and Christos Constantinidis, Stevenson Chair and professor of biomedical engineering, have been elected Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
The AAAS is the world’s largest multidisciplinary scientific society with members in more than 90 countries around the globe. The 2025 Fellows class includes 449 scientists, engineers, and innovators spanning 24 scientific disciplines who are being recognized for their scientifically and socially distinguished achievements.
Landman and Constantinidis will be officially inducted at the Fellows Forum in Washington, D.C., on May 29, 2026.
“The recognition reflects the creativity, inspiration, and grit of our interdisciplinary team,” said Landman, who is director of the Vanderbilt Lab for Immersive AI Translation (VALIANT). “By combining engineering innovation, clinical science, and human tenacity, we can discover new meaning in medical images and create opportunities to improve patient care.”
Landman is a preeminent scholar who holds joint appointments in electrical and computer engineering and radiology and radiological sciences with secondary appointments in computer science, biomedical engineering, psychiatry and behavioral sciences, biomedical informatics, and neurology. In addition to medical image analysis, his research interests include neuroimaging, body imaging, informatics, and machine learning.
He founded the Vanderbilt University Institute of Image Science’s (VUIIS) Center for Computational Imaging and serves as principal scientist of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center radiology research archive, ImageVU, with 1+ billion images.
Constantinidis, associate director of the Vanderbilt Brain Institute, said he’s honored to be elected an AAAS Fellow, one of the most distinct honors in the scientific community.
“It highlights the collective efforts of trainees and colleagues who have contributed to my lab’s research over the years,” he said. “It reinforces my commitment to AAAS’s mission to advance science, engineering, and innovation for the benefit of all.”
Constantinidis holds a joint appointment in neuroscience and secondary appointments in radiology and radiological sciences, psychology, ophthalmology and visual sciences, and neurological surgery.
He said the recognition comes on the heels of a major publication his team completed last year, identifying the measures of neural activity and brain structure that predict maturation of cognitive functions during adolescence.
Landman and Constantinidis are among six Vanderbilt faculty named 2025 AAAS Fellows, bringing the total number for the university to 137 since 2012.