Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowships 2009

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is proud to announce and congratulate the winners of the 2009 Sloan Research Fellowships. The award is given annually to 118 early career scientists and scholars who demonstrate outstanding promise and potential to contribute substantially to their fields. Many past recipients have gone on to win Nobel Prizes, Fields Medals, John Bates Clark Medals, and numerous other distinguished awards.

Chemistry Kamesh Munagala Alina Marian Stefan Leutgeb Duke University University of Illinois, Chicago University of California, San Diego Alán Aspuru-Guzik Yoichiro Mori Harvard University Tze Sing Eugene Ng Hang Lu Rice University University of Minnesota Georgia Institute of Technology Martin D. Burke Jesse Peterson University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Ryan William O’Donnell Maxence V. Nachury Carnegie Mellon University Vanderbilt University Stanford University Peng Chen Cornell University Fabio Pellacini Luis E. Silvestre Bence P. Ölveczky Dartmouth College University of Chicago Harvard University Steven A. Corcelli University of Notre Dame Ramesh Raskar Jian Song Suzanne Paradis Massachusetts Institute of Technology Rutgers, The State University of NJ Brandeis University Niels H. Damrauer University of Colorado, Boulder Alex C. Snoeren Julianna Tymoczko Doris Ying Tsao University of California, San Diego University of Iowa California Institute of Technology Paula Diaconescu University of California, Los Angeles René Vidal Lauren K. Williams Haoxing Xu Johns Hopkins University Harvard University University of Michigan Vy Maria Dong University of Toronto Luis von Ahn Wotao Yin Carnegie Mellon University Rice University Physics Thomas G. Gray Steve Zdancewic Case Western Reserve University Molecular Biology Bogdan Andrei Bernevig University of Pennsylvania Song Jin (Computational & Evolutionary) Princeton University University of Wisconsin, Madison Economics Florencia Canelli Jennifer J. Kohler Frank Alber University of Chicago University of Southern California University of Texas, SW Medical Center Erica Field Subhadeep Gupta Benjamin J. McCall Harvard University Philip H. Bradley University of Washington Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Matthew Gentzkow Hartmut Häffner Thuc-Quyen Nguyen University of Chicago Graham Coop University of California, Berkeley University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Davis Patrik Guggenberger M. Zahid Hasan Jeffrey Pyun University of California, Los Angeles Eleazar Eskin Princeton University University of Arizona University of California, Los Angeles Shachar Kariv Karsten M. Heeger Michael Grabe Joseph M. Ready University of California, Berkeley University of Wisconsin, Madison University of Texas, SW Medical Center University of Pittsburgh Guido Lorenzoni Andrew Houck Andres E. Leschziner Richmond Sarpong Massachusetts Institute of Technology Princeton University University of California, Berkeley Harvard University Alexandre Mas Alexandre V. Morozov Pablo Jarillo-Herrero Rachel A. Segalman University of California, Berkeley Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of California, Berkeley Rutgers, The State University of NJ Nathan Nunn Joshua B. Plotkin William C. Jones Dmitri V. Talapin Harvard University Princeton University University of Chicago University of Pennsylvania Michèle Tertilt Luis M. Kruczenski Yi Tang Daven C. Presgraves Stanford University Purdue University University of California, Los Angeles University of Rochester Mark R. Krumholz Edward Valeev Sara Sawyer Mathematics University of California, Santa Cruz Virginia Polytechnic Institute University of Texas, Austin Rory Waterman Gerard Awanou Adam Siepel Chao-Lin Kuo University of Vermont Northern Illinois University Cornell University Stanford University Aaron R. Wheeler Francesco D. Calegari Kevin R. Thornton Christian Lupien University of Toronto Northwestern University University of California, Irvine University of Sherbrooke Tehshik P. Yoon Izzet Coskun Liam McAllister University of Wisconsin, Madison University of Illinois, Chicago Neuroscience Cornell University Liming Zhang Samit Dasgupta Jose M. Carmena John McGreevy University of Nevada, Reno University of California, Santa Cruz University of California, Berkeley Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ciprian Demeter Tansu Celikel Adilson E. Motter Computer Science Indiana University University of Southern California Northwestern University Scott Aaronson Mathias Drton Brent Doiron Anatoli Polkovnikov Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Chicago University of Pittsburgh Boston University Shuchi Chawla Julien Dubédat Ila R. Fiete Robert Raussendorf University of Wisconsin, Madison Columbia University University of Texas, Austin University of British Columbia Kevin Fu Justin A. Holmer David J. Foster Gil Refael University of Massachusetts, Amherst Brown University Johns Hopkins University California Institute of Technology Odest Chadwicke Jenkins Chiu-Yen Kao Roberto Fernández Galán Robert A. Simcoe Brown University Ohio State University Case Western Reserve University Massachusetts Institute of Technology David Kempe Thomas Lam Denise Y.P. Henriques Anna Stasto University of Southern California Harvard University York University Pennsylvania State University James Russell Lee Robert Lipshitz Rongsheng Jin Todd A. Thompson University of Washington Columbia University Burnham Institute for Medical Research Ohio State University Zhuoqing Morley Mao Dan Margalit Adam Kepecs Ahmet Yildiz University of Michigan Tufts University Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory University of California, Berkeley

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