Jason Wang Named Sloan Research Fellow
March 5, 2025
Congratulations to Physics and Astronomy Professor Jason Wang for being named a Sloan Research Fellow!
Gifted by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the honor highlights the creativity, innovation and research accomplishments of early-career researchers.
Jason takes faint images of exoplanets and removes the glare coming from host stars by using techniques like coronagraphy, spectroscopy and interferometry, developing new techniques to measure the signal and properties of distant exoplanets. He monitors exoplanets over time to trace orbits and infer dynamic histories, and studies atmospheres to infer what they are made of. His current research focuses on the gas giant exoplanets, but he ultimately hopes to find habitable exoplanets.
The two-year $75,000 fellowship is one of the most competitive and prestigious awards available to young researchers, and many past fellows have gone on to become distinguished figures in science. The financial support can be used flexibly to advance the fellow’s research. They are also often seen as a marker of the quality of an institution’s faculty and proof of an institution’s success in attracting the most promising early-career researchers to its ranks.