Juliette Lecomte has been elected to the newest class of fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society. Fellows are selected annually for their contributions to their respective fields and the body of science as a whole.

Juliette is a professor in the Department of Biophysics at the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. Lecomte’s laboratory studies experimental biophysical chemistry with a primary focus on heme proteins. Lecomte is recognized for her distinguished contributions to the determinants of protein structure, function, stability, and dynamics in solution using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, particularly in relation to the globin family and its origins.

The 2022 class of fellows will be celebrated in Washington, D.C., this summer. Congratulations Juliette!