Seven Northwestern professors named Sloan Research Fellows
February 18, 2025
Seven Northwestern faculty members, including Roel Tempelaar, have been awarded a prestigious 2025 Sloan Research Fellowship. Gifted by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the honor highlights the creativity, innovation and research accomplishments of early-career researchers.
Northwestern was the educational institution with the most faculty in the 2025 Sloan Research Fellowship honorees, a distinction it shares this year with MIT, which also has seven fellows. The fellows are chemists Linsey C. Seitz and Roel Tempelaar, computer scientist Xiao Wang, economist Matthew Rognlie, mathematicians Rachel Greenfeld and Niall M. Mangan, and physicist Jason Wang.
The seven faculty, each a part of the McCormick School of Engineering or Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, are among 126 of the most promising young scientists across the U.S. and Canada who make up this year’s class. The annual fellowships are awarded to scholars in seven scientific and technical fields: chemistry, computer science, Earth system science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience and physics. Candidates are nominated by their fellow scientists.