Catherine Davis Named Sloan Research Fellow

Catherine Davis, an assistant professor of marine, earth and atmospheric sciences at North Carolina State University, has been awarded a 2025 Sloan Research Fellowship in Earth System Science. Davis’ work focuses on the long-term effects of global climate on oceanographic environments.

Open to scholars in seven fields – chemistry, computer science, Earth system science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience and physics – 126 fellowships were awarded to the most innovative young scientists across the U.S. and Canada. Winners receive a two-year, $75,000 fellowship which can be used flexibly to advance the Fellow’s research.

Davis is the eighth NC State faculty member to receive the prestigious award, which has been given annually since 1955 by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Previous award winners are chemist T. Brent Gunnoe in 2004, mathematician Jonathan Hauenstein in 2014, biomedical engineer Zhen Gu in 2016, mathematician Tye Lidman in 2018, materials scientist Veronica Augustyn in 2019, mathematician Cynthia Vinzant in 2020 and chemical engineer Lilian Hsaio in 2022.

A Sloan Research Fellowship is one of the most prestigious awards available to young
researchers, in part because so many past Fellows have gone on to become distinguished figures
in science. To date, 58 Fellows have received a Nobel Prize, including John Hopfield, last year’s Nobel laureate in physics. Seventy-two have won the National Medal of Science, 17 have won the Fields Medal in mathematics, and 24 have won the John Bates Clark Medal in economics, including every winner since 2009.

Davis received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis in 2016 and joined the NC State faculty in 2021.

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This post was originally published in NC State News.