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Twenty-one University of California faculty have been named 2024 Sloan Research fellows, a prestigious award that recognizes rising stars among early-career scientists and scholars, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundationannounced today(Feb. 20).

More Sloan fellows are affiliated with UC than any other institution granted the awards this year. UCs fellowship-winning faculty are spread across 7 campuses, as shown in the table below.

Winners receive a two-year, $75,000 award which can be used flexibly to advance their research.

Bestowed this year to 126 of the brightest young scientists across the U.S. and Canada, Sloan Research fellowships are some of the most competitive and prestigious awards available to early-career researchers, honoring their creativity, innovation and research accomplishments. They are also often seen as a marker of the quality of an institutions science faculty and proof of an institutions success in attracting the most promising junior researchers to its ranks.

Sloan Research fellowships are extraordinarily competitive awards involving the nominations of the most inventive and impactful early-career scientists across the U.S. and Canada, said Adam F. Falk, president of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. We look forward to seeing how fellows take leading roles shaping the research agenda within their respective fields.

Counting this years awardees, 753 faculty from the University of California have received a Sloan Research fellowship since the awards inception in 1955. The award is prestigious in part because so many past fellows have gone on to become distinguished figures in science. To date, 57 fellows have received a Nobel Prize, 71 have won the National Medal of Science, 17 have won the Fields Medal in mathematics, and 23 have won the John Bates Clark Medal in economics.

The awards are open to scholars in seven different scientific and technical fields chemistry, computer science, Earth system science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience, and physics and nominations are made by fellow scientists. Winners are selected by independent panels of senior scholars on the basis of a candidates research accomplishments, creativity and potential to become a scientific pathbreaker.

This years UC Sloan fellows are:

University of California, Berkeley

Kwabena Bediako, chemistry Meng-meng Fu, neuroscience Nika Haghtalab, computer science Michael Lindsey, mathematics Dipti Nayak, Earth system science Geoff Penington, physics Penny Wieser, Earth system science Preeya Khanna, neuroscience Yakun Sophia Shao, computer science

University of California, Davis

Theanne N. Griffith, neuroscience

University of California, Merced

Shahar Sukenik, chemistry

University of California, San Diego

Vineet Augustine, neuroscience Abdoulaye Ndao, physics Monique L. Smith, neuroscience

University of California, San Francisco

Vijay Mohan K Namboodiri, neuroscience

University of California, Santa Barbara

Chenhao Jin, physics Xiao Luo, physics Vojtech Vlcek, chemistry Yang Yang, chemistry

University of California, Santa Cruz

Roxanne Beltran, Earth system science Jacqueline M. Kimmey, neuroscience

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