Alfred P. Sloan Foundation - Sloan Research Fellowships

External Deadline: 
Sep 2021
Internal Deadline: 
Jul 2021

External Deadline:  September 2021                             Internal Deadline: July 2021

NOTE: Interested candidates should contact their Department Chairs to seek nomination for the Sloan Fellowship Program. Up to 3 nominations per department are allowed.

Program Description:

The Sloan Research Fellowship Program recognizes and rewards outstanding early-career faculty who have the potential to revolutionize their fields of study. Successful candidates for this Fellowship generally have a strong record of significant independent research accomplishments that demonstrate creativity and the potential to become future leaders in the scientific community. Nominated candidates are normally several years past the completion of their Ph.D. in order to accumulate a competitive record of independent, significant research.

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Number of Applications: Up to 3 nominations per Department

Budget: $75,000 over a two-year period

Eligibility

  • Candidates must hold a Ph.D. or equivalent degree in chemistry, computer science, Earth system science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience, physics, or a related field.
  • Candidates must be tenure-track, though untenured, as of September 15, 2021
  • Candidate’s faculty position must carry a regular teaching obligation

Application Requirements

  1. A letter from a department head or other senior researcher officially nominating the candidate and describing his or her qualifications, initiative, and research;
  2. The candidate's curriculum vitae (including a list of the candidate’s scientific publications);
  3. Two representative articles by the candidate;
  4. A brief (one-page) statement by the candidate describing his or her significant scientific work and immediate research plans;
  5. Three letters from other researchers (preferably not all from the same institution) written in support of the candidate’s nomination.

Click here to apply to the Sloan Research Fellowships by 11:59PM EDT, July 26, 2021

Past Recipients

Baskin, Jeremy
Year Received : 
2019
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Lin, Song
Year Received : 
2019
Howard Milstein Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Ramshaw, Brad
Year Received : 
2019
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics
Yapici, Nilay
Year Received : 
2017
Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences, Assistant Professor
Department of Neurobiology and Behavior
Thorson, Jon
Year Received : 
2000
Miesenbock, Gero
Year Received : 
2000
Ryan, Timothy
Professor
Department of Biochemistry
Caudy, Michael
Neuroscience