Faculty member at the University of Georgia, Pierrick Bousseau has been granted a distinguished Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship to bolster his research endeavors over the next two years, as announced by the Sloan Foundation on February 18.

Bousseau, an assistant professor in the department of mathematics at the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, will obtain $75,000 from the prestigious two-year fellowship. He is among 126 early-stage researchers chosen as 2025 Sloan Fellows nationwide, and he marks the 15th Sloan awardee from UGA since the inception of the fellowship program in 1955.

“The ambitious and remarkable curiosity of innovative inquiry among our faculty continues to resonate nationwide, as confirmed by this latest Sloan Fellowship awarded to Dr. Bousseau,” remarked Anna Stenport, dean of the Franklin College. “This significant accolade and vital research assistance represents a noteworthy career milestone for an inventive young faculty member, as well as a notable honor for the university. We extend our congratulations to Dr. Bousseau for his impressive accomplishment.”

Bousseau’s scholarly investigation in algebraic geometry centers on moduli spaces of curves and sheaves, Gromov-Witten and Donaldson-Thomas invariants, tropical geometry, and cluster varieties. He was one of two recipients of the 2024 Dubrovin Medal, an exclusive award that honors exceptional contributions made by promising young researchers in the domains of mathematical physics and geometry.

The Sloan Research Fellowship is among the most esteemed accolades available to emerging researchers, partly due to the numerous past Fellows who have evolved into distinguished authorities in their scientific domains. So far, 58 Fellows have earned a Nobel Prize, including John Hopfield, the 2024 Nobel laureate in physics. Additionally, seventy-two Fellows have received the National Medal of Science, 17 have been awarded the Fields Medal in mathematics, and 24 have obtained the John Bates Clark Medal in economics, including all recipients since 2009.

Sloan Fellowships are accessible to researchers in eight scientific and technical disciplines: chemistry, computer science, economics, mathematics, computational and evolutionary molecular biology, neuroscience, ocean sciences, and physics. Candidates are nominated by fellow researchers, and those selected as Fellows are chosen by impartial panels of senior scholars based on their research achievements, creativity, and potential to emerge as leaders in their respective fields.

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