Sloan Research Fellowship

This article is about the fellowship for early-career scientists. For the management program for business leaders, see Sloan Fellows.

Sloan Research Fellowships
Awarded for	provide support and recognition to early-career scientists and scholars
Country	Worldwide
Presented by	Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
First awarded	1955
Official website	Sloan Research Fellowships official site

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 (1972), economics (1980), computer science (1993), and computational and evolutionary molecular biology (2002). 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. (or equivalent) 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 (i.e., tenure track) 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 (see below) 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.

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

Zhiguo He, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business

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

Muyinatu Bell, 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

Sloan Fellowship recipients who became Nobel or Fields Medal laureates

Name	Field	Sloan year	Prize year
Richard Feynman	Physics	1955	1965
Murray Gell-Mann	Physics	1957	1969
Leon N. Cooper	Physics	1959	1972
Sheldon Lee Glashow	Physics	1962	1979
Steven Weinberg	Physics	1961	1979
Val L. Fitch	Physics	1960	1980
James W. Cronin	Physics	1962	1980
Kenneth G. Wilson	Physics	1963	1982
Jack Steinberger	Physics	1958	1988
Melvin Schwartz	Physics	1959	1988
Frederick Reines	Physics	1959	1995
Alan J. Heeger	Chemistry	1963	2000 (Physics)
Carl E. Wieman	Physics	1984	2001
David J. Gross	Physics	1970	2004
H. David Politzer	Physics	1977	2004
Frank Wilczek	Physics	1976	2004
Theodor W. Hänsch	Physics	1973	2005
Donna Strickland	Physics	1998	2018
Roald Hoffmann	Chemistry	1966	1981
Dudley R. Herschbach	Chemistry	1959	1986
Yuan T. Lee	Chemistry	1969	1986
John C. Polanyi	Chemistry	1959	1986
Elias J. Corey	Chemistry	1955	1990
Rudolph A. Marcus	Chemistry	1960	1992
Mario J. Molina	Chemistry	1976	1995
Robert F. Curl, Jr.	Chemistry	1961	1996
Richard E. Smalley	Chemistry	1978	1996
Ahmed H. Zewail	Chemistry	1978	1999
Alan G. MacDiarmid	Chemistry	1959	2000
K. Barry Sharpless	Chemistry	1973	2001
Robert H. Grubbs	Chemistry	1974	2005
Richard R. Schrock	Chemistry	1976	2005
Martin Karplus	Chemistry	1959	2013
Arieh Warshel	Chemistry	1978	2013
John Forbes Nash	Mathematics	1956	1994 (Economics)
Eric Maskin	Economics	1983	2007
Roger Myerson	Economics	1984	2007
Alvin E. Roth	Economics	1984	2012
Lars Peter Hansen	Economics	1982	2013
Jean Tirole	Economics	1985	2014
Stanley Prusiner	Neuroscience	1976	1997 (Medicine)
Paul Lauterbur	Chemistry	1965	2003 (Medicine)
Linda B. Buck	Neuroscience	1992	2004 (Medicine)
John Milnor	Mathematics	1955	1962
Paul Cohen	Mathematics	1962	1966
Stephen Smale	Mathematics	1960	1966
Heisuke Hironaka	Mathematics	1962	1970
John G. Thompson	Mathematics	1961	1970
David Mumford	Mathematics	1962	1974
Charles Fefferman	Mathematics	1970	1978
Daniel G. Quillen	Mathematics	1967	1978
William Thurston	Mathematics	1974	1982
Shing-Tung Yau	Mathematics	1974	1982
Michael H. Freedman	Mathematics	1980	1986
Vaughan Jones	Mathematics	1983	1990
Curtis T. McMullen	Mathematics	1988	1998
Vladimir Voevodsky	Mathematics	1997	2002
Andrei Okounkov	Mathematics	2000	2006
Terence Tao	Mathematics	1999	2006

Notes

See also

• List of chemistry awards
• List of economics awards
• List of mathematics awards

External links

• Sloan Research Fellowships official site
• 2015 Sloan Research Fellowships brochure