Raul Castro Fernandez among six UChicago scientists awarded prestigious Sloan Fellowships in 2025
Assistant Professor Raul Castro Fernandez is among the six UChicago scientists who have earned prestigious Sloan Research Fellowships, which recognize early-career scholars’ potential to make substantial contributions to their fields.
Awarded since 1955 to the brightest young scientists across the United States and Canada, the two-year Sloan Fellowships are one of the most competitive and prestigious awards available to early-career researchers. This year’s winners, announced Feb. 18, will receive two-year fellowships in the amount of $75,000 to further their innovative research.
Since the first Sloan Research Fellowships were awarded in 1955, 221 faculty from the University of Chicago have received a Sloan Research Fellowship.
Raul Castro Fernandez is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science.
His research agenda, data ecology, explores how data affects our technological, economic, social, and cultural ecosystems. Data ecology studies data ecosystems and proposes technical and multi-disciplinary interventions to control dataflows and improve how data ecosystems work. In addition, he is interested in designing and implementing systems for data discovery and processing and, more generally, all things data.
Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher at MIT CSAIL and received his Ph.D from Imperial College London.
Read about the other six scientists here at UChicago News.
