2026 Sloan Research Fellows
Congratulations to the Sloan Research Fellows of 2026! The following 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. Winners receive $75,000, which may be spent over a two-year term on any expense supportive of their research.
Chemistry
Ashok Ajoy, University of California, Berkeley
Chibueze Amanchukwu, The University of Chicago
Herdeline Ann M. Ardoña, University of California, Irvine
Steven Banik, Stanford University
Abdoulaye Djire, Texas A&M University
Fleur Ferguson, University of California, San Diego
Matthew Golder, University of Washington
William M. Jacobs, Princeton University
Yayuan Liu, Johns Hopkins University
Brett A. McGuire, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mona Minkara, Northeastern University
Andres Montoya-Castillo, University of Colorado, Boulder
Andy I. Nguyen, University of Illinois at Chicago
C. Denise Okafor, The Pennsylvania State University
Marvin Parasram, New York University
Demyan Prokopchuk, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
Grant M. Rotskoff, Stanford University
Marcel R. Schreier, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Seunghyun Sim, University of California, Irvine
Erin Stache, Princeton University
Jerzy O. Szablowski, Rice University
Tina Wang, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Anna Wuttig, The University of Chicago
Yang Yang, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Computer Science
Maria Apostolaki, Princeton University
Soheil Behnezhad, Northeastern University
danah boyd, Cornell University
Sarah E. Chasins, University of California, Berkeley
Aloni Cohen, The University of Chicago
Abe Davis, Cornell University
Benjamin Eysenbach, Princeton University
Yasaman Ghasempour, Princeton University
Surbhi Goel, University of Pennsylvania
Tatsunori B. Hashimoto, Stanford University
Vikram Iyer, University of Washington
Aayush Jain, Carnegie Mellon University
Yoon Kim, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Anand Natarajan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Aditi Raghunathan, Carnegie Mellon University
Siva Reddy, McGill University
Joseph Tassarotti, New York University
Caroline Trippel, Stanford University
John Wright, University of California, Berkeley
Mengjia Yan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Hao Zhang, University of California, San Diego
Jun-Yan Zhu, Carnegie Mellon University
Earth System Science
Annie M. Bauer, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Ashesh Chattopadhyay, University of California, Santa Cruz
Valentina Di Santo, University of California, San Diego
Madison M. Douglas, University of California, Berkeley
Benjamin Freeman, Georgia Institute of Technology
Frankie Pavia, University of Washington
Wei Qin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Tara M. Smiley, Stony Brook University
Economics
Hassan Afrouzi, Columbia University
Desmond Ang, Harvard University
Juliane Begenau, Stanford University
John Eric Humphries, Yale University
Juliana Londoño-Vélez, University of California, Los Angeles
Jack Mountjoy, The University of Chicago
Christina Patterson, The University of Chicago
Shoshana Vasserman, Stanford University
Shaoda Wang, The University of Chicago
Mathematics
Dallas Albritton, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Paul Apisa, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Morgane Austern, Harvard University
Jacopo Borga, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Benjamin Castle, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Mateo Díaz, Johns Hopkins University
Elden Elmanto, University of Toronto Scarborough
Philip Engel, University of Illinois at Chicago
Christopher Eur, Carnegie Mellon University
Arun Kumar Kuchibhotla, Carnegie Mellon University
Spencer Leslie, Boston College
Haihao Lu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Huy Tuan Pham, California Institute of Technology
Florian Schäfer, New York University
Alexander Smith, Northwestern University
Bartolomeo Stellato, Princeton University
Daniel L. Stern, Cornell University
Pragya Sur, Harvard University
Maxime Van de Moortel, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
Soledad Villar, Johns Hopkins University
Lingfu Zhang, California Institute of Technology
Neuroscience
Caroline J. Charpentier, University of Maryland, College Park
David V. Clewett, University of California, Los Angeles
Josefina del Mármol, Harvard University
Brian D. DePasquale, Boston University
Michael N. Economo, Boston University
Kelsie Eichel, University of Colorado, Boulder
Linlin Fan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Danique Jeurissen, New York University
Xin Jin, Scripps Research Institute
Willem Laursen, University of Washington
Liang Liang, Yale University
Shixuan Liu, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Shan Meltzer, Vanderbilt University
Azahara Oliva Gonzalez, Cornell University
Karthik Shekhar, University of California, Berkeley
Shriya S. Srinivasan, Harvard University
Christoph Thaiss, Stanford University
Physics
Maria (Masha) Baryakhtar, University of Washington
Kimberly K. Boddy, The University of Texas at Austin
Yuan Cao, University of California, Berkeley
Jacob Covey, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Fei Dai, University of Hawaii
Guillaume Duclos, Brandeis University
Anna-Christina Eilers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Pradip Gatkine, University of California, Los Angeles
Guosong Hong, Stanford University
Eslam Khalaf, Harvard University
Isaac Kim, University of California, Davis
Xiaomeng Liu, Cornell University
Wenbin Lu, University of California, Berkeley
Peter Maurer, The University of Chicago
James McIver, Columbia University
Matteo Mitrano, Harvard University
Elias R. Most, California Institute of Technology
Erica Nelson, University of Colorado, Boulder
Isobel R. Ojalvo, Princeton University
Diana Y. Qiu, Yale University
Katelin Schutz, McGill University
Mattia Serra, University of California, San Diego
Allison Strom, Northwestern University
Andrea Thamm, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Zoe Yan, The University of Chicago