Saffman receives Sloan Research Fellowship

Mark Saffman, a physics professor, has been selected to receive a Sloan Research Fellowship, a highly competitive award for young scholars.

The fellowship, which carries an unrestricted award of $40,000 to support individual recipient’s research, is among 104 awarded to promising young scholars in the United States and Canada by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation of New York.

Saffman, who joined the UW–Madison faculty in 1999, studies complex behavior such as pattern formation, in particular in optical systems. His work has implications for, among other things, improved information processing.

Based in New York City, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, among other activities, works in support of academic scholarship. Sloan Research Fellowships are highly competitive, attracting nominations for North America’s brightest young scholars.