Sloan Research Fellowship


The Sloan Research Fellowships are awarded annually by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 1955 to "provide support and recognition to early-career scientists and scholars". This program is one of the oldest of its kind in the United States.
Fellowships were initially awarded in physics, chemistry, and mathematics. Awards were later added in neuroscience, economics, computer science, and computational and evolutionary molecular biology. These two-year fellowships are awarded to 126 researchers yearly.

Eligibility requirements

The foundation has been supportive of scientists who are parents by allowing them extra time after their doctorate during which they remain eligible for the award:

"Candidates for Sloan Research Fellowships are required to hold the Ph.D. in chemistry, physics, mathematics, computer science, economics, neuroscience or computational and evolutionary molecular biology, or in a related interdisciplinary field, and must be members of the regular faculty of a college or university in the United States or Canada. They may be no more than six years from completion of the most recent Ph.D. or equivalent as of the year of their nomination, unless special circumstances such as military service, a change of field, or child rearing are involved or unless they have held a faculty appointment for less than two years. If any of the above circumstances apply, the letter of nomination should provide a clear explanation. While Fellows are expected to be at an early stage of their research careers, there should be strong evidence of independent research accomplishments. Candidates in all fields are normally below the rank of associate professor and do not hold tenure, but these are not strict requirements. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation welcomes nominations of all candidates who meet the traditional high standards of the program, and strongly encourages the participation of women and members of underrepresented minority groups."

Award recipients

Since the beginning of the program in 1955, 43 fellows have won a Nobel Prize, and 16 have won the Fields Medal in mathematics.

Sloan Fellowship recipients who became Nobel or Fields Medal laureates

2019 Sloan Fellowship Recipients

Chemistry

John Anderson, The University of Chicago
Jessica Anna, University of Pennsylvania
Veronica Augustyn, North Carolina State University
Jeremy Baskin, Cornell University
Keary Engle, Scripps Research Institute
Xiaofeng Feng, University of Central Florida
Yongjie Hu, University of California, Los Angeles
Ralph E. Kleiner, Princeton University
Song Lin, Cornell University
Smaranda Marinescu, University of Southern California
Ellen Matson, University of Rochester
Matthew McDowell, Georgia Institute of Technology
David Nagib, Ohio State University
Alison Narayan, University of Michigan
Jonathan Rivnay, Northwestern University
Brenda M. Rubenstein, Brown University
Sandeep Sharma, University of Colorado, Boulder
Diwakar Shukla, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Hailiang Wang, Yale University
Masayuki Wasa, Boston College
Christina Woo, Harvard University
Yan Xia, Stanford University
Mingxu You, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Computational and Evolutionary Molecular Biology

Mengjie Chen, The University of Chicago
Nancy Chen, University of Rochester
Edward Chuong, University of Colorado, Boulder
Lorin Crawford, Brown University
Kelley Harris, University of Washington
Po-Ru Loh, Harvard Medical School
Ricardo Mallarino, Princeton University
David McCandlish, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Hosein Mohimani, Carnegie Mellon University
Priya Moorjani, University of California, Berkeley
Aaron Reinke, University of Toronto
Patrick Shih, University of California, Davis

Computer Science

Yang Cai, McGill University
Alvin Cheung, University of Washington
Reetuparna Das, University of Michigan
Rong Ge, Duke University
Bernhard Haeupler, Carnegie Mellon University
Moritz Hardt, University of California, Berkeley
Haitham Hassanieh, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Gillat Kol, Princeton University
Jason D. Lee, University of Southern California
Sergey Levine, University of California, Berkeley
Wyatt Lloyd, Princeton University
Shayan Oveis Gharan, University of Washington
Emily Whiting, Boston University
Christopher Wilson, Northeastern University
Keith Winstein, Stanford University
Mary Wootters, Stanford University

Economics

Nikhil Agarwal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Denis Chetverikov, University of California, Los Angeles
Rebecca Diamond, Stanford University
Will Dobbie, Princeton University
Michal Kolesár, Princeton University
Melanie Morten, Stanford University
Philipp Strack, University of California, Berkeley
Gabriel Zucman, University of California, Berkeley

Mathematics

Xiuyuan Cheng, Duke University
Florian Frick, Carnegie Mellon University
Shirshendu Ganguly, University of California, Berkeley
Kristen Hendricks, Michigan State University
Mihaela Ifrim, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Philip Isett, California Institute of Technology
Junehyuk Jung, Texas A&M University
Andrew W. Lawrie, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bao Le Hung, Northwestern University
John Lesieutre, The Pennsylvania State University
Francesco Lin, Princeton University
Kathryn Mann, Brown University
Davi Maximo, University of Pennsylvania
Barna Saha, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Mahdi Soltanolkotabi, University of Southern California
Konstantin Tikhomirov, Georgia Institute of Technology
Botong Wang, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Yufei Zhao, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tianyi Zheng, University of California, San Diego
Xin Zhou, University of California, Santa Barbara

Neuroscience

Nicholas Bellono, Harvard University
Andrés Bendesky, Columbia University
Eva Dyer, Georgia Institute of Technology
Annegret Falkner, Princeton University
Keren Haroush, Stanford University
Saul Kato, University of California, San Francisco
Matthew Kaufman, The University of Chicago
Arjun Krishnaswamy, McGill University
Chethan Pandarinath, Emory University
Kanaka Rajan, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Rachel Roberts-Galbraith, University of Georgia
Alexandra Rosati, University of Michigan
Amitai Shenhav, Brown University
Thomas Sprague, University of California, Santa Barbara
Daniel Wacker, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Jason Yi, Washington University in St. Louis

Ocean Sciences

Rachael Bay, University of California, Davis
Clara Blättler, The University of Chicago
Stephanie Green, University of Alberta
Elizabeth Harvey, University of Georgia
Carly D. Kenkel, University of Southern California
Wei Liu, University of California, Riverside
Laure Resplandy, Princeton University
Mark Torres, Rice University

Physics

, Johns Hopkins University
Meng Cheng, Yale University
Eduardo H. da Silva Neto, University of California, Davis
Zohreh Davoudi, University of Maryland, College Park
Courtney Dressing, University of California, Berkeley
Ben Feldman, Stanford University
Daniel Harlow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Daniel Huber, University of Hawaii
Raffaella Margutti, Northwestern University
Christine Muschik, University of Waterloo
Nir Navon, Yale University
Melissa Ness, Columbia University
Aaswath Raman, University of Pennsylvania
Brad Ramshaw, Cornell University
Lorenzo Sironi, Columbia University
Marcelle Soares-Santos, Brandeis University
Jeff Thompson, Princeton University
Romain Vasseur, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Marta Verweij, Vanderbilt University
Inna Vishik, University of California, Davis
Katherine Whitaker, University of Connecticut
Kent Yagi, University of Virginia
Ming Yi, Rice University

2020 Sloan Fellowship Recipients

Chemistry

Abraham Badu-Tawiah, Ohio State University
Ksenia Bravaya, Boston University
Jakoah Brgoch, University of Houston
Ou Chen, Brown University
Robert A. DiStasio Jr., Cornell University
Susan Fullerton-Shirey, University of Pittsburgh
Amanda E. Hargrove, Duke University
Kelsey Hatzell, Vanderbilt University
Marta Hatzell, Georgia Institute of Technology
Frank Leibfarth, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Steffen Lindert, Ohio State University
Andrew McNally, Colorado State University
Raymond E. Moellering, The University of Chicago
David Powers, Texas A&M University
Monika Raj, Auburn University
Sean Roberts, The University of Texas, Austin
Jose Rodriguez, University of California, Los Angeles
Aaron Rossini, Iowa State University
Samuel H. Sternberg, Columbia University
Judy Wu, University of Houston
Wei Xiong, University of California, San Diego
Xiaoji Xu, Lehigh University
Lauren Zarzar, The Pennsylvania State University

Computational and Evolutionary Molecular Biology

Michael Baym, Harvard Medical School
Ami Bhatt, Stanford University
Mark Chaisson, University of Southern California
Emilia Huerta-Sanchez, Brown University
Robin E. C. Lee, University of Pittsburgh
Samantha Morris, Washington University in St. Louis
Joseph Parker, California Institute of Technology
Ann Tate, Vanderbilt University

Computer Science

Michael Carbin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Anna Choromanska, New York University
Christina Delimitrou, Cornell University
Stefano Ermon, Stanford University
Sanjam Garg, University of California, Berkeley
Stephanie Gil, Arizona State University
Ioannis Gkioulekas, Carnegie Mellon University
Hannaneh Hajishirzi, University of Washington
Zico Kolter, Carnegie Mellon University
Yin Tat Lee, University of Washington
Stefanie Mueller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Daniele Panozzo, New York University
Aditya Parameswaran, University of California, Berkeley
Nadia Polikarpova, University of California, San Diego
Aaron Sidford, Stanford University
David Soloveichik, The University of Texas, Austin
Guy Van den Broeck, University of California, Los Angeles
Tam Vu, University of Colorado, Boulder
S. Matthew Weinberg, Princeton University
Jenna Wiens, University of Michigan

Economics

Mohammad Akbarpour, Stanford University
Luigi Bocola, Stanford University
Emily Breza, Harvard University
Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Harvard University
Benjamin Faber, University of California, Berkeley
Cecile Gaubert, University of California, Berkeley
Ricardo Perez-Truglia, University of California, Los Angeles
Owen Zidar, Princeton University

Mathematics

Jeff Calder, University of Minnesota
Roger Casals, University of California, Davis
Otis Chodosh, Stanford University
Damek Davis, Cornell University
Tarek M. Elgindi, University of California, San Diego
Peter Hintz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Robert Hough, Stony Brook University
Hao Huang, Emory University
Sebastian Hurtado-Salazar, The University of Chicago
Aleksandr Logunov, Princeton University
Linquan Ma, Purdue University
Sung-Jin Oh, University of California, Berkeley
Weijie Su, University of Pennsylvania
Omer Tamuz, California Institute of Technology
Samuel Taylor, Temple University
Ila Varma, University of Toronto
Cynthia Vinzant, North Carolina State University
Alexander Wright, University of Michigan
Yao Yao, Georgia Institute of Technology
Zhizhen Zhao, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Neuroscience

Stephen Brohawn, University of California, Berkeley
Christine Constantinople, New York University
Juan Du, Van Andel Institute
Sarah DuBrow, University of Oregon
Tatiana Engel, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Elias Issa, Columbia University
Antonia Kaczkurkin, Vanderbilt University
Erica Korb, University of Pennsylvania
Cressida Madigan, University of California, San Diego
Andrew Miri, Northwestern University
Yuki Oka, California Institute of Technology
Zhaozhu Qiu, Johns Hopkins University
Eve Schneider, University of Kentucky
Adam C. Snyder, University of Rochester
Floris van Breugel, University of Nevada, Reno
Moriel Zelikowsky, University of Utah

Ocean Sciences

Kyle Armour, University of Washington
A. Murat Eren, The University of Chicago
Jeremy Owens, Florida State University
Jacqueline Padilla-Gamiño, University of Washington
Chelsea Rochman, University of Toronto
Amina Schartup, University of California, San Diego
Daniel Stolper, University of California, Berkeley
Jennifer Sunday, McGill University

Physics

Imre Bartos, University of Florida
Barry Bradlyn, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Simon Caron-Huot, McGill University
John Joseph M. Carrasco, Northwestern University
Srabanti Chowdhury, Stanford University
Jason Dexter, University of Colorado, Boulder
Ruobing Dong, University of Victoria
Liang Feng, University of Pennsylvania
Alex Frano, University of California, San Diego
Heather M. Gray, University of California, Berkeley
Ming Guo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michael Hatridge, University of Pittsburgh
Or Hen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Renée Hložek, University of Toronto
Vedika Khemani, Stanford University
Adrian Liu, McGill University
Andrew Lucas, University of Colorado, Boulder
Stevan Nadj-Perge, California Institute of Technology
Erik Petigura, University of California, Los Angeles
Amir Safavi-Naeini, Stanford University
David Schwab, Graduate School and University Center CUNY
Douglas Stanford, Stanford University
Michael Zaletel, University of California, Berkeley
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