Today, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced the selection of 126 extraordinary early career researchers as recipients of the 2020 Sloan Research Fellowship. Among the recipients are three researchers from McGill: Simon Caron-Huot, (Assistant Professor, Department of Physics), Adrian Liu (Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and the McGill Space Institute), and Jennifer Sunday (Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar, Department of Biology).
Candidates are nominated by their colleagues, and winning fellows are selected by independent panels of senior scholars on the basis of a candidate’s research accomplishments, creativity, and potential to become a leader in his or her field. Winners receive a two-year, $70,000 fellowship to further their research.
“Being recognized by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is a clear sign of the quality of these early-career researchers,” said Martha Crago, Vice-Principal, Research and Innovation. “McGill University is fortunate to count talents such as these among our Faculty and we look forward to seeing their future successes.”
Past Sloan Research Fellows include many towering figures in the history of science, including physicists Richard Feynman and Murray Gell-Mann, and game theorist John Nash. Fifty fellows have received a Nobel Prize in their respective field, 17 have won the Fields Medal in mathematics, 69 have received the National Medal of Science, and 19 have won the John Bates Clark Medal in economics, including every winner since 2007.
The Sloan Research Fellowships are open to scholars in eight scientific and technical fields – chemistry, computer science, economics, mathematics, computational and evolutionary molecular biology, neuroscience, ocean sciences, and physics – and are awarded in close coordination with the scientific community.
“To receive a Sloan Research Fellowship is to be told by your fellow scientists that you stand out among your peers,” says Adam F. Falk, president of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. “A Sloan Research Fellow is someone whose drive, creativity, and insight makes them a researcher to watch.”
A look at McGill’s three new Sloan Research Fellows and their work:
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