Chemist named Sloan Foundation Research Fellow | News | Notre Dame News | University of Notre Dame Skip To Content Skip To Navigation Skip To Search University of Notre Dame Notre Dame News Experts ND in the News Subscribe About Us Home Contact Search Menu Home › News › Chemist named Sloan Foundation Research Fellow Chemist named Sloan Foundation Research Fellow Published: March 06, 2009 Author: William G. Gilroy Steven A. Corcelli, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Notre Dame, has been selected as a 2009 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow. The Sloan Foundation selected 118 outstanding early career scientists, mathematicians and economists at 61 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. The two-year, $50,000 award goes to faculty who are conducting research at the frontiers of physics, chemistry, computational and evolutionary molecular biology, computer science, economics, mathematics and neuroscience. Corcelli, who joined the Notre Dame faculty in 2005, also was recently named a recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the highest honor given by the U.S. government to young faculty in engineering and science. Corcelli is an expert in charge transfer reactions occurring in confined aqueous environments. His current research interests include the dynamics of water at DNA interfaces, infrared probes of biomolecular environment and structure, computer simulations of metal-oxide interfaces and nonadiabatic transition path sampling. Corcelli earned his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Brown University and his doctorate in chemistry from Yale University. His doctoral research focused on rate constant calculations for rare event systems and vibrational pooling in surface-bound carbon monoxide. Prior to joining the Notre Dame faculty, Corcelli was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Wisconsin where he worked on spectral diffusion and vibrational echo correlation spectroscopy. Sloan fellowships have been awarded since 1955, initially in only threes scientific fields: physics, chemistry and mathematics. Since then, 38 Sloan Research Fellows have gone on to win the Nobel Prize in their fields. Another 14 have received the Fields Medal, the top honor in mathematics. Although Sloan fellowships in economics only began in 1983, Sloan fellows have subsequently accounted for eight of the 13 winners of the John Bates Clark Medal, generally considered the top honor for young economists. Posted In: Research Home Experts ND in the News Subscribe About Us Related October 05, 2022 Astrophysicists find evidence for the presence of the first stars October 04, 2022 NIH awards $4 million grant to psychologists researching suicide prevention September 29, 2022 Notre Dame, Ukrainian Catholic University launch three new research grants September 27, 2022 Notre Dame, Trinity College Dublin engineers join to advance novel treatment for cystic fibrosis September 22, 2022 Climate-prepared countries are losing ground, latest ND-GAIN index shows For the Media Contact Office of Public Affairs and Communications Notre Dame News 500 Grace Hall Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube Pinterest © 2022 University of Notre Dame Search Mobile App News Events Visit Accessibility Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube LinkedIn