Professor Praveen Kumar has been elected to the rank of Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science. This honor is given to members whose “efforts on behalf of the advancement of science, or its applications, are scientifically or socially distinguished.”
Kumar was cited “for pioneering the field of hydrocomplexity and for his groundbreaking contribution on the emergent behavior in multi-scale water, soil, climate and vegetation interactions in the context of critical zone science.”
He is the Colonel Harry F. and Frankie M. Lovell Endowed Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the executive director of the Prairie Research Institute at the U. of I. His research focuses on the modeling and prediction of nonlinear multiscale interactions resulting from the flow of water across the atmosphere, soil, vegetation and human systems. He is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorological Society.