Julia Schwartzman views her Sloan Research Fellowship as an opportunity to highlight how microbes shape ocean ecology. (Photo: Courtesy of Julia Schwartzman.)
Marine microbiologist awarded prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship
USC Dornsife scholar Julia Schwartzman joins a select group of science luminaries that includes nearly 60 Nobel laureates.
For scientists at the start of their careers, certain awards are common harbingers of future success. The Sloan Research Fellowship, bestowed upon promising early-career scientists by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, has helped launch many high achievers since its inception in 1955.
Now, Julia Schwartzman, Gabilan Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, joins the ranks of Sloan Research Fellows – a prestigious group that includes some of the brightest minds in science.
Schwartzman, who studies how marine microbes behave, interact and shape the ecological dynamics of their environments, was among 126 rising stars of science recently announced as 2025 Sloan Research Fellows.