Wright Lab assistant professor Ian Moult was one of four Yale faculty members to win Sloan Research Fellowships in 2025. The fellowship recognizes early-career scientists and scholars whose research accomplishments make them stand out as future leaders in their field. In 2025, 126 researchers from the United States and Canada recieved a fellowship.
Since the first Sloan fellowships were awarded in 1955, 143 faculty from Yale have received a fellowship, including this year’s winners.
Moult’s Sloan fellowship is for physics. He has been a faculty member in the Department of Physics since 2021.
His research looks at new techniques in quantum field theory for describing high energy particle physics experiments. He has also played a prominent role in the development of Jet Substructure, which applies patterns in the structure of energy flow in particle collisions to maximize the discovery potential for new physics.
Sloan Research Fellowships are awarded in eight scientific and technical fields: computer science, neuroscience, physics, economics, chemistry, computational and evolutionary molecular biology, mathematics, and Earth system science.
Other scientists nominate candidates for the fellowships. Winners are selected by an independent panel of senior scholars on the basis of the candidates’ research accomplishments, creativity, and potential to become leaders in their field.
This article was adapted from a Yale News article by Jim Shelton published on February 19, 2025.