April 7, 2005
Sloan fellow in Physiology/Biophysics
Dr. Adrienne Fairhall, assistant professor of physiology and biophysics, has been awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship, given to the very best young faculty members in designated scientific fields. Her award is in the field of neuroscience, one of seven areas represented.
Three other UW faculty members were winners this year: Dr. Daniel Chiu, assistant professor of chemistry; and Drs. Venkatesan Guruswami and Mark Oskin, both assistant professors of computer science and engineering.
Because her award was mistakenly listed under another institution’s name, Fairhall was not included in the original University Week story on the Sloan Fellowships (March 3 issue).
Fairhall earned a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel in 1998 and came to the UW in January 2004 from Princeton, where she was a postdoctoral fellow. She also holds a fellowship for “Careers at the Scientific Interface,” supported by the Burroughs-Wellcome Fund.
Using experimental data and simple neural model systems, she is investigating information processing in sensory systems. She is especially interested in how systems adapt and account for the context of incoming information when it is processed.
The fellowship includes $45,000, which can be used over the two-year period for research and career support.
