Theresa Maldonado
AAAS President, University of California Office of the President
Biography
Theresa Anna Maldonado is an American electrical engineer and academic administrator serving as the vice president for research and innovation at the University of California since 2020. She has served as the president-elect of the American Association for the Advancement of Science since March 2024.
Maldonado was the dean and Ritter Professor of Engineering at the University of Texas at El Paso College of Engineering from 2017 to 2020. Maldonado was an administrator at the National Science Foundation for six years.