NAI Senior Members are active faculty, scientists, and administrators with success in patents, licensing, and commercialization and have produced technologies that have brought or aspire to bring, real impact on the welfare of society. They are rising stars who foster a spirit of innovation within their communities and institutions while educating and mentoring the next generation of inventors. Senior Membership is exclusively available to inventors affiliated with an NAI Member Institution.
The Academy accepts Senior Member nominations year-round and reviews and elects Senior Members biannually.
Nominations are reviewed by the Senior Member Advisory Committee. The committee is a peer group comprised of NAI Members, Fellows, Senior Members, among others.