Stanford Faculty

A graduate student works in the lab with professor Carolyn Bertozzi, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2022.

Stanford faculty are leaders in their fields with their accomplishments recognized across the disciplines. Faculty work closely with students and conduct groundbreaking research.

Today, Stanford has 2,304 members of the professoriate faculty. There are 692 members appointed to endowed professorships.

Stanford’s Fall 2022 community of scholars includes:

21
Nobel laureates

36
Nobel Prize winners since the university’s founding

33
MacArthur Fellows

7
National Humanities Medal recipients

4
Pulitzer Prize winners

9
National Medal of Science recipients

3
National Medal of Technology recipients

304
American Academy of Arts and Sciences members

179
National Academy of Science members

115
National Academy of Engineering members

94
National Academy of Medicine members

27
National Academy of Education members

49
American Philosophical Society members

7
Wolf Foundation Prize winners

1
Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients

7
A.M. Turing Award winners while on faculty

3
Kavli Prize laureates

1
National Medal of Arts winner

Stanford’s Fall 2022 community of scholars includes:

Faculty by the numbers