The Alfred Sloan Foundation has selected three Princeton faculty
members to receive Sloan Research Fellowships, highly competitive,
unrestricted grants for outstanding scholars and scientists early in
their careers.
Economists Markus Brunnermeier and Helene Rey and computer scientist
Olga Troyanskaya were among 116 U.S. researchers chosen for the Sloan
fellowship. Each researcher will receive a grant of $45,000 over two
years.
Brunnermeier, an assistant professor who joined the faculty in 1999,
studies financial crises and significant mispricing of investments due
to frictions between institutions, strategic considerations and other
motives that are not part of the conventional economic view of the
perfectly rational investor.
Rey joined the University in 2000 as an assistant professor in the
economics department, the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and
International Affairs and the Bendheim Center for Finance. She also
studies financial crises and recently has examined the value of
international assets and their effect on trade deficits and debts.
Troyanskaya, an assistant professor in computer science and the
Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics since 2003, uses
techniques of computer science and mathematics to analyze genome data.
Recently, she developed a method for identifying alterations to
chromosomes that occur when cells become malignant.
