Recently, Sloan Research Fellowships, having a reputation for being the “Wind Vane of Nobel Prize”, announced the latest list of 2024 recipients, a total of 126 scholars selected. Recipients receive a prize of $75,000, which may be spent over a two-year term on any research-related expense.

Sloan Research Fellowship, established in 1955, is awarded annually by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, with the purpose of providing support and recognition to scientists and scholars in the fields of physics, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, etc.

According to the preliminary statistics of CNUR, there are 29 Chinese in the recipients, decreased by 1 compared to 2023. Most Chinese recipients, 9 in total, are devoted to the field of physics, followed by computer science and chemistry (7 recipients each), mathematics (4 recipients), and Earth system science and neuroscience (1 recipient each).

Brief introduction of part of Chinese selected recipients

Wenjing Wang is now a research assistant professor in University of Michigan, who was an undergraduate at Xiamen University, acquired Ph.D. at Michigan State University, and conducted postdoctoral work first at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and then at Stanford University.

Wang joined the U-M Life Sciences Institute (LSI) and the Department of Chemistry at the University of Michigan in 2018. Her lab at the LSI has an overarching goal of designing novel molecular tools with widespread utilities across the subfields of cell biology and neuroscience to facilitate biological studies. Cutting-edge protein engineering methods will be utilized to optimize the overall performance of the tools and the tools are validated in yeast cell cultures, mammalian cell cultures, neuronal cultures and animal models.

Xiao Wang is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at MIT. Wang received her B.S. in Chemistry and Molecular Engineering from Peking University and her Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Chicago. She conducted postdoctoral work at Stanford University from 2015 to 2019.

Xiao Wang is a core institute member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. She started her lab in 2019 to develop and apply new chemical, biophysical, and genomic tools to better understand tissue function and dysfunction at the molecular level. Wang joined the MIT and Broad after conducting postdoctoral research in Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University with Professor Karl Deisseroth, where she was a fellow of the Life Sciences Research Foundation.

Xin Yan is an assistant professor in Texas A&M University, who serially received M.S. and Ph.D. at Purdue University in 2011 and 2015, and then conducted postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University. Her research combines expertise in mass spectrometry, microdroplet chemistry, electrochemistry, and biology to develop novel approaches for disease diagnosis, structural lipidomics, and accelerated electrochemical reactions.

The Announcement Time of 2024 Nobel Prize has been determined!

Recently, the official web of Nobel Prize has provided the specific announcement time of 2024 Nobel Prize. This year’s Nobel Prize will announce the winners in the fields of Physiology or Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, Literature and Peace on 7-11 October, and Economic Sciences on 14 October. All of the prize announcements will be streamed live on nobelprize.org and on the official digital channels of the Nobel Prize. In-depth information about the prizes will be published at nobelprize.org.

The Complete List of 2024 Sloan Research Fellowships

CHEMISTRY

Kwabena Bediako, University of California, Berkeley

Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena, Georgia Institute of Technology

Yael David, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Lisa Fredin, Lehigh University

Stephen D. Fried, Johns Hopkins University

Kandis Leslie Gilliard-AbdulAziz, University of California, Riverside

Stavroula K. Hatzios, Yale University

Abigail Knight, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Chong Liu, The University of Chicago

Zhenfei Liu, Wayne State University

Jonathan Z. Long, Stanford University

Jarad A. Mason, Harvard University

Lea Nienhaus, Florida State University

Rodrigo Noriega, University of Utah

Zachariah A. Page, The University of Texas at Austin

Shahar Sukenik, University of California, Merced

Alexandra Velian, University of Washington

Vojtech Vlcek, University of California, Santa Barbara

Wenjing Wang, University of Michigan

Xiao Wang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Sidney M. Wilkerson-Hill, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Xin Yan, Texas A&M University

Yang Yang, University of California, Santa Barbara

NEUROSCIENCE

Vineet Augustine, University of California, San Diego

Wilma A. Bainbridge, The University of Chicago

SueYeon Chung, New York University

Anne Draelos, University of Michigan

Meng-meng Fu, University of California, Berkeley

Stephanie Gantz, University of Iowa

Theanne N. Griffith, University of California, Davis

Vijay Mohan K Namboodiri, University of California, San Francisco

Justus M. Kebschull, Johns Hopkins University

Preeya Khanna, University of California, Berkeley

Jacqueline M. Kimmey, University of California, Santa Cruz

Jonathan Lynch, Johns Hopkins University

Zachariah M. Reagh, Washington University in St. Louis

Monique L. Smith, University of California, San Diego

Gaia Tavoni, Washington University in St. Louis

Maryam Vaziri-Pashkam, University of Delaware

Meg Younger, Boston University

PHYSICS

Kate D. Alexander, University of Arizona

Soonwon Choi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Martin Claassen, University of Pennsylvania

Susan E. Clark, Stanford University

Chuanfei Dong, Boston University

Chunhui Du, Georgia Institute of Technology

Ke Fang, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Maya Fishbach, University of Toronto

Anna Y. Q. Ho, Cornell University

Chao-Ming Jian, Cornell University

Chenhao Jin, University of California, Santa Barbara

Daniel Lecoanet, Northwestern University

Zhen Liu, University of Minnesota

Xiao Luo, University of California, Santa Barbara

Lee McCuller, California Institute of Technology

Karan K. Mehta, Cornell University

Abdoulaye Ndao, University of California, San Diego

Lina Necib, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Hadi Nia, Boston University

Geoff Penington, University of California, Berkeley

Alexander Philippov, University of Maryland, College Park

Vikram Ravi, California Institute of Technology

Andrew Vanderburg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Suyang Xu, Harvard University

Yahui Zhang, Johns Hopkins University

EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE

Roxanne Beltran, University of California, Santa Cruz

Natalie Cohen, University of Georgia

Travis A. Courtney, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez

Orencio Duran Vinent, Texas A&M University

Kaitlyn Gaynor, University of British Columbia

Ching-Yao Lai, Stanford University

Marianna Linz, Harvard University

Dipti Nayak, University of California, Berkeley

Sunyoung Park, The University of Chicago

Penny Wieser, University of California, Berkeley

ECONOMICS

Zoë B Cullen, Harvard University

Eduardo Dávila, Yale University

Ellora A. Derenoncourt, Princeton University

Laura Doval, Columbia University

Maryam Farboodi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Kilian Huber, The University of Chicago

Ryota Iijima, Yale University

Ludwig Straub, Harvard University

MATHEMATICS

Alex Blumenthal, Georgia Institute of Technology

Theodore D. Drivas, Stony Brook University

Zhou Fan, Yale University

Elena Giorgi, Columbia University

Benjamin D. Grimmer, Johns Hopkins University

Matthew Harrison-Trainor, University of Illinois at Chicago

Jiaoyang Huang, University of Pennsylvania

Yuehaw Khoo, The University of Chicago

Daniel Lacker, Columbia University

Boris Leonidovich Hanin, Princeton University

Michael Lindsey, University of California, Berkeley

Daniel Litt, University of Toronto

Jinyoung Park, New York University

Sarah Peluse, University of Michigan

Samuel Punshon-Smith, Tulane University

Aaditya Ramdas, Carnegie Mellon University

Ananth Shankar, Northwestern University

Junliang Shen, Yale University

Antoine Song, California Institute of Technology

Melanie Weber, Harvard University

Ian M. Zemke, Princeton University

COMPUTER SCIENCE

Jacob D. Andreas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Nathan Beckmann, Carnegie Mellon University

Adam M. Belay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Aaron Bernstein, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Katherine (Katie) L. Bouman, California Institute of Technology

Simon Shaolei Du, University of Washington

Daniel Genkin, Georgia Institute of Technology

Nika Haghtalab, University of California, Berkeley

Nan Jiang, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Chi Jin, Princeton University

Rene F. Kizilcec, Cornell University

Aleksandra Korolova, Princeton University

Courtney Y. Paquette, McGill University

Priyanka Raina, Stanford University

Arvind Satyanarayan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Adriana Schulz, University of Washington

Yakun Sophia Shao, University of California, Berkeley

Justine Sherry, Carnegie Mellon University

Virginia Smith, Carnegie Mellon University

Li-Yang Tan, Stanford University

Diyi Yang, Stanford University

Xiangyao Yu, University of Wisconsin, Madison