2021 Sloan Research Fellows
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation congratulates the winners of the 2021 Sloan Research Fellowships. These 128 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. Winners receive $75,000, which may be spent over a two-year term on any expense supportive of their research.
Chemistry
Carlos R. Baiz, The University of Texas, Austin
Joseph A. Cotruvo, Jr., The Pennsylvania State University
Emily Derbyshire, Duke University
A. Sloan Devlin, Harvard Medical School
Jeffrey E. Dick, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Elizabeth Elacqua, The Pennsylvania State University
Wei Gao, California Institute of Technology
Robert J. Gilliard, University of Virginia
Julia Kalow, Northwestern University
Heather J. Kulik, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Han Li, University of California, Irvine
David Limmer, University of California, Berkeley
Karthish Manthiram, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nicholas Mayhall, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Hans Renata, Scripps Research Institute
Sophie Rousseaux, University of Toronto
Leslie M. Schoop, Princeton University
Ashleigh B. Theberge, University of Washington
Steven D. Townsend, Vanderbilt University
Haotian Wang, Rice University
Luisa Whittaker-Brooks, University of Utah
Sheng Xu, University of California, San Diego
Joel Yuen-Zhou, University of California, San Diego
Computational & Evolutionary Molecular Biology
Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis, University of Pittsburgh
Joseph H. Davis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ziyue Gao, University of Pennsylvania
Kerry A. Geiler-Samerotte, Arizona State University
Benjamin Good, Stanford University
Heng Li, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Stilianos Louca, University of Oregon
Harold Pimentel, University of California, Los Angeles
Molly Schumer, Stanford University
James Zou, Stanford University
Computer Science
Fadel Adib, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Rachit Agarwal, Cornell University
Nima Anari, Stanford University
Kai-Wei Chang, University of California, Los Angeles
Alessandro Chiesa, University of California, Berkeley
Alina Ene, Boston University
Giulia C. Fanti, Carnegie Mellon University
Sean W. Follmer, Stanford University
Roger B. Grosse, University of Toronto
Tovi Grossman, University of Toronto
Tucker Hermans, University of Utah
Oluwasanmi O. Koyejo, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Samory Kpotufe, Columbia University
Smita Krishnaswamy, Yale University
Brandon M. Lucia, Carnegie Mellon University
Tengyu Ma, Stanford University
Dor Minzer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ravi Netravali, University of California, Los Angeles
Alexander Rush, Cornell University
Mark Zhandry, Princeton University
Earth Systems Science
Jacqueline Austermann, Columbia University
Anela Choy, University of California, San Diego
Sarah E. Mazza, Smith College
Sierra V. Petersen, University of Michigan
Brett R. Scheffers, University of Florida
Emily (Emmy) F. Smith, Johns Hopkins University
Justin V. Strauss, Dartmouth College
Jodi N. Young, University of Washington
Economics
Wenxin Du, The University of Chicago
Benjamin Enke, Harvard University
Elena Manresa, New York University
Christopher A. Neilson, Princeton University
Benjamin Schoefer, University of California, Berkeley
Jesse Schreger, Columbia University
Isaac Sorkin, Stanford University
Dmitry Taubinsky, University of California, Berkeley
Mathematics
Bhaswar B. Bhattacharya, University of Pennsylvania
Tamás Darvas, University of Maryland, College Park
Yu Deng, University of Southern California
Xiumin Du, Northwestern University
Jessica Fintzen, Duke University
Pavel Galashin, University of California, Los Angeles
Adel Javanmard, University of Southern California
Ilya Khayutin, Northwestern University
Brandon Levin, University of Arizona
Yevgeny Liokumovich, University of Toronto, Mississauga
Fedor Manin, University of California, Santa Barbara
Alexander Perry, University of Michigan
Lisa Piccirillo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Brandon Seward, University of California, San Diego
Egor Shelukhin, University of Montreal
Yakov Shlapentokh-Rothman, Princeton University
William Slofstra, University of Waterloo
Nathaniel Stapleton, University of Kentucky
Laura Starkston, University of California, Davis
Madeleine Udell, Cornell University
Neuroscience
Ishmail Abdus-Saboor, University of Pennsylvania
Rishidev Chaudhuri, University of California, Davis
Shaul Druckmann, Stanford University
Steven W. Flavell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Manuel Gomez-Ramirez, University of Rochester
Maria Ioannou, University of Alberta
Sung Soo Kim, University of California, Santa Barbara
Laura D. Lewis, Boston University
Benjamin J. Matthews, University of British Columbia
Jean-Michel Mongeau, The Pennsylvania State University
Eva A. Naumann, Duke University
Martina Poletti, University of Rochester
David M. Schneider, New York University
Katherine A. Tschida, Cornell University
Urbain Weyemi, The University of Texas, Austin
Swathi Yadlapalli, University of Michigan
Physics
Carlos A. Argüelles-Delgado, Harvard University
Ana Asenjo-Garcia, Columbia University
Hannes Bernien, The University of Chicago
Timothy D. Brandt, University of California, Santa Barbara
Victor W. Brar, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Sarah Burke-Spolaor, West Virginia University
Blakesley Burkhart, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
M. Carmen Carmona Benitez, The Pennsylvania State University
David R. Curtin, University of Toronto
Liang Dai, University of California, Berkeley
Roxanne Guenette, Harvard University
Nicholas R. Hutzler, California Institute of Technology
Elisabeth Krause, University of Arizona
Biao Lian, Princeton University
Luqiao Liu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Marc Miskin, University of Pennsylvania
Caroline Morley, The University of Texas, Austin
Jedediah H. Pixley, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Andrew C. Potter, The University of Texas, Austin
Frank G. Schroeder, University of Delaware
Daniel Weissman, Emory University
Liuyan Zhao, University of Michigan
Bo Zhen, University of Pennsylvania