Sloan Research Fellowships

Award Description

The Sloan Research Fellowships seek to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise who hold a PhD or equivalent in chemistry, computer science, economics, mathematics, molecular biology, neuroscience, ocean sciences, physics, or a related field. These two-year fellowships are awarded yearly to 126 researchers in recognition of distinguished performance and a unique potential to make substantial contributions to their field. Fellows are selected on the basis of their independent research accomplishments, creativity, and potential to become leaders in the scientific community through their contributions to their field.

Eligibility Details

Candidates must hold a PhD or equivalent degree in chemistry, computer science, Earth system science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience, physics, or a related field.; Candidates must be members of the faculty of a college, university, or other degree-granting institution in the U.S. or Canada.; Candidates must be tenure-track, though untenured, as of September 15 of the nomination year.; Candidate’s faculty position must carry a regular teaching obligation.; The Sloan Research Fellowship Program recognizes and rewards outstanding early-career faculty who have the potential to revolutionize their fields of study.

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In order to be considered for a Sloan Research Fellowship, a candidate must have a letter of nomination from a department head or other senior researcher. Submissions unaccompanied by a nomination letter from a senior researcher are not accepted.

More than one candidate from a department may be nominated per fellowship field, but no more than three.

Nomination Letters and Letters of Support are important elements of the selection process and are read carefully by Selection Committees. The letters allow nominators and support writers to give Committee members insight about nominees that is not present in their other application materials (CV, publication list, etc.). Selection Committees recommend that letters of support be submitted by someone who can speak objectively and knowledgeably about the quality and significance of a nominee’s work. Letters submitted by co-authors, personal associates, or professional mentors are, in this sense, less useful to Selection Committees than letters submitted by those with more professional distance from a nominee’s work.

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Previous Winners

Arjun Krishnaswamy

Aaron Reinke

Christine Muschik

Stephanie Green

Alec Jacobson

David Duvenaud

Michael Groechenig

Peggy St. Jacques

Nicolas Papernot

Ben Matthews

David Curtin

Maria Ioannou

Tovi Grossman

William Slofstra

Yevgeny Liokumovich

Sushant Sachdeva

Sophie Spirkl

Saurabh Chitnis

Maria Drout

Yang Cai

Jimmy Ba

Alannah Hallas

Duncan Dauvergne

Anastassia Voronova