The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation congratulates the winners of the 2015 Sloan Research Fellowships. These 126 early-career scholars represent the most promising scientific researchers working today. Their achievements and potential place them among the next generation of scientific leaders in the U.S. and Canada. Since 1955, Sloan Research Fellows have gone on to win 43 Nobel Prizes, 16 Fields Medals, 65 National Medals of Science, 14 John Bates Clark Medals, and numerous other distinguished awards.

CHEMISTRY

Nandini AnanthCornell University

Shannon BoettcherUniversity of Oregon

Kevin BrownIndiana University

James CahoonUniversity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Brandi CossairtUniversity of Washington

Jennifer A. DionneStanford University

Aaron Esser-KahnUniversity of California, Irvine

Zahra FakhraaiUniversity of Pennsylvania

Alison FoutUniversity of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Danna FreedmanNorthwestern University

Naomi GinsbergUniversity of California, Berkeley

Artur IzmaylovUniversity of Toronto

Hemamala KarunadasaStanford University

Amber KrummelColorado State University

Thomas MaimoneUniversity of California, Berkeley

Neal MankadUniversity of Illinois at Chicago

Michael NeidigUniversity of Rochester

Bradley PenteluteMassachusetts Institute of Technology

Michael PluthUniversity of Oregon

Jennifer PrescherUniversity of California, Irvine

Toru ShiozakiNorthwestern University

Andrea TaoUniversity of California, San Diego

Hao XuGeorgia State University

COMPUTATIONAL & EVOLUTIONARY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Alan BoyleUniversity of Michigan

Ian EhrenreichUniversity of Southern California

Mitchell GuttmanCalifornia Institute of Technology

Michael HarmsUniversity of Oregon

Jennifer Phillips-CreminsUniversity of Pennsylvania

Peter RalphUniversity of Southern California

Padmini RangamaniUniversity of California, San Diego

Michael C. SchatzCold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Corina E. TarnitaPrinceton University

Cole TrapnellUniversity of Washington

Harris WangColumbia University

Amy WilliamsCornell University

COMPUTER SCIENCE

Ryan AdamsHarvard University

Sébastien BubeckPrinceton University

Isil DilligUniversity of Texas, Austin

Prabal DuttaUniversity of Michigan

Natalie Enright JergerUniversity of Toronto

Emily FoxUniversity of Washington

Shyam GollakotaUniversity of Washington

J. Alex HaldermanUniversity of Michigan

James HaysBrown University

Percy LiangStanford University

Shachar LovettUniversity of California, San Diego

Ariel ProcacciaCarnegie Mellon University

Thomas RistenpartUniversity of Wisconsin, Madison

Aaron RothUniversity of Pennsylvania

Thomas RothvossUniversity of Washington

Daniel WigdorUniversity of Toronto

ECONOMICS

Eric BudishThe University of Chicago

Benjamin HandelUniversity of California, Berkeley

Oleg ItskhokiPrinceton University

Greg KaplanPrinceton University

Magne MogstadThe University of Chicago

Suresh NaiduColumbia University

Paul NiehausUniversity of California, San Diego

Heidi L. WilliamsMassachusetts Institute of Technology

MATHEMATICS

Ben AdcockSimon Fraser University

Richard BamlerUniversity of California, Berkeley

Jacob BedrossianUniversity of Maryland, College Park

Boris BukhCarnegie Mellon University

Jonathan ChaikaUniversity of Utah

Jian DingThe University of Chicago

Jörn DunkelMassachusetts Institute of Technology

David GeraghtyBoston College

Jennifer HomColumbia University

Tasho KalethaHarvard University

Lin LinUniversity of California, Berkeley

Emmy MurphyMassachusetts Institute of Technology

Vivek ShendeUniversity of California, Berkeley

Andrew SnowdenUniversity of Michigan

Jacob TsimermanUniversity of Toronto

Vlad VicolPrinceton University

Melanie Matchett WoodUniversity of Wisconsin, Madison

Hau-tieng WuUniversity of Toronto

Ting ZhouNortheastern University

Xinwen ZhuCalifornia Institute of Technology

NEUROSCIENCE

Helen BateupUniversity of California, Berkeley

Steve ChangYale University

Damon ClarkYale University

John CunninghamColumbia University

Lindsey GlickfeldDuke University

Viviana GradinaruCalifornia Institute of Technology

Michael HalassaNew York University

Shantanu JadhavBrandeis University

Julie LefebvreUniversity of Toronto

Polina V. LishkoUniversity of California, Berkeley

Brian J. O’RoakOregon Health & Science University

Stephanie PalmerThe University of Chicago

Marcos SotomayorOhio State University

Bradley VoytekUniversity of California, San Diego

Melissa WardenCornell University

Jeffrey M. YauBaylor College of Medicine

OCEAN SCIENCES

Danielle DixsonGeorgia Institute of Technology

Jennifer JacquetNew York University

Karen G. LloydUniversity of Tennessee

Douglas McCauleyUniversity of California, Santa Barbara

Christopher ReinhardGeorgia Institute of Technology

Alyson SantoroUniversity of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

Themistoklis SapsisMassachusetts Institute of Technology

Stephanie WatermanUniversity of British Columbia

PHYSICS

Christine A. AidalaUniversity of Michigan

Ariel AmirHarvard University

James AnalytisUniversity of California, Berkeley

Pascal AudetUniversity of Ottawa

Alyson BrooksRutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Fiona BurnellUniversity of Minnesota

Shane DavisUniversity of Virginia

Lukasz FidkowskiStony Brook University

Raphael FlaugerCarnegie Mellon University

Ryan FoleyUniversity of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Mohammad HafeziUniversity of Maryland, College Park

Gregg HallinanCalifornia Institute of Technology

Michael KesdenUniversity of Texas at Dallas

Heather KnutsonCalifornia Institute of Technology

Thomas E. KuhlmanUniversity of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Wei LiRice University

Vladimir ManucharyanUniversity of Maryland, College Park

Kater MurchWashington University in St. Louis

Smadar NaozUniversity of California, Los Angeles

Kang-Kuen NiHarvard University

Tiffany A. ShawColumbia University

Kai SunUniversity of Michigan

Pedro VieiraUniversity of Waterloo

Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowships 2015

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is a philanthropic, not-for-profit grantmaking institution that supports original research and education in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and economics. www.sloan.org

Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs… There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different. (Alfred P. Sloan Jr., 1941)