2025 Sloan Research Fellows
Congratulations to the Sloan Research Fellows of 2025. The following 126 scholars represent the most promising early-career scientists 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
Monther Abu-Remaileh, Stanford University
Scott K. Cushing, California Institute of Technology
Cesar de la Fuente, University of Pennsylvania
Milan Delor, Columbia University
Selvan Demir, Michigan State University
Ariel L. Furst, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ryan G. Hadt, California Institute of Technology
Amir Haji-Akbari, Yale University
Glen M. Hocky, New York University
Xiongyi Huang, Johns Hopkins University
Sarah B. King, The University of Chicago
Jinghua Li, The Ohio State University
Tania J. Lupoli, New York University
Angad P. Mehta, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Lisa Olshansky, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Boone M. Prentice, University of Florida
Courtney C. Roberts, University of Minnesota
Linsey C. Seitz, Northwestern University
Weixin Tang, The University of Chicago
Roel Tempelaar, Northwestern University
Dianne J. Xiao, University of Washington
Yingjie Zhang, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Aleksandr V. Zhukhovitskiy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Computer Science
David Bau III, Northeastern University
Raul Castro Fernandez, The University of Chicago
Lydia B. Chilton, Columbia University
Natacha Crooks, University of California, Berkeley
Mohsen Ghaffari, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Marzyeh Ghassemi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Zhihao Jia, Carnegie Mellon University
Allison Z. Koenecke, Cornell University
Himabindu Lakkaraju, Harvard University
Sharon Yixuan Li, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Andrew Owens, University of Michigan
Deepak Pathak, Carnegie Mellon University
Lerrel Pinto, New York University
David Rolnick, McGill University
Aviad Rubinstein, Stanford University
Thatchaphol Saranurak, University of Michigan
Yu Su, The Ohio State University
Wen Sun, Cornell University
Xiao Wang, Northwestern University
Xiaolong Wang, University of California, San Diego
David J. Wu, The University of Texas at Austin
Amy X. Zhang, University of Washington
Earth System Science
Rene Boiteau, University of Minnesota
Peter W. Crockford, Carleton University
Barnabas Daru, Stanford University
Catherine V. Davis, North Carolina State University
Darcy McRose, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sean Michaletz, University of British Columbia
James Roberts Crall, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Julia A. Schwartzman, University of Southern California
Courtney J. Sprain, University of Florida
Vashan Wright, University of California, San Diego
Economics
Corina Boar, New York University
Chen Lian, University of California, Berkeley
Matthew Rognlie, Northwestern University
Jonathan Roth, Brown University
Evan D. Sadler, Columbia University
Yotam Shem-Tov, University of California, Los Angeles
Maria Micaela Sviatschi, Princeton University
Emil Verner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Christian K. Wolf, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mathematics
Jason Altschuler, University of Pennsylvania
Anton Bernshteyn, University of California, Los Angeles
Pierrick Bousseau, University of Georgia
Michelle Delcourt, Toronto Metropolitan University
Tony Feng, University of California, Berkeley
Rachel Greenfeld, Northwestern University
Jeremy G. Hoskins, The University of Chicago
Brendan Keith, Brown University
Joe Kileel, The University of Texas at Austin
Jason M. Klusowski, Princeton University
Eric Larson, Brown University
Chao Li, New York University
Niall M. Mangan, Northwestern University
Song Mei, University of California, Berkeley
Maggie Miller, The University of Texas at Austin
Lue Pan, Princeton University
Ernest K. Ryu, University of California, Los Angeles
Anna Seigal, Harvard University
Mark Sellke, Harvard University
Kurt Vinhage, University of Utah
Anderson Ye Zhang, University of Pennsylvania
Neuroscience
Victoria Eugenia Guadalupe Abraira, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Lauren V. Albrecht, University of California at Irvine
Lynne Chantranupong, Boston University
Vikram Gadagkar, Columbia University
Tristan Geiller, Yale University
Qili Liu, University of California, San Francisco
Paul Masset, McGill University
Malavika Murugan, Emory University
Jean-Paul Noel, University of Minnesota
James K. Nuñez, University of California, Berkeley
Amy L. Orsborn, University of Washington
Shreya Saxena, Yale University
Alexandre Tiriac, Vanderbilt University
Travis Walton, Van Andel Institute
Xue-Xin Wei, The University of Texas at Austin
Wendy W. S. Yue, University of California, San Francisco
Chuchu Zhang, University of California, Los Angeles
Physics
Alexandra Amon, Princeton University
Daniel Anglés-Alcázar, University of Connecticut
Rana Ashkar, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Edoardo Baldini, The University of Texas at Austin
Fabio Boschini, Institut national de la recherche scientifique
Raúl A. Briceño, University of California, Berkeley
Hao Cao, University of California, Los Angeles
Jordan Cotler, Harvard University
Luca V. Delacrétaz, The University of Chicago
Trithep Devakul, Stanford University
Kareem El-Badry, California Institute of Technology
Linran Fan, The University of Texas at Austin
Tova R. Holmes, University of Tennessee
Alexander Ji, The University of Chicago
Alvine C. Kamaha, University of California, Los Angeles
Huanqian Loh, Duke University
Sarah C. Millholland, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ian J. Moult, Yale University
Raquel Queiroz, Columbia University
Evan E. Schneider, University of Pittsburgh
Bhavin J. Shastri, Queen's University
Jason Wang, Northwestern University
Liang Wu, University of Pennsylvania
Yaojun Zhang, Johns Hopkins University