NSF-Simons National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology members Niall Mangan and Jeremy Hoskins have been awarded prestigious 2025 Sloan Research Fellowships. Sloan Research Fellowships are one of the most competitive awards available to early-career researchers. The fellowships will allow Mangan and Hoskins to further their innovative research.
Niall Mangan
Niall Mangan is an assistant professor of engineering sciences and applied mathematics at Northwestern University. She is also a Theme Leader for Fitness & Optimization at the NITMB. Her primary goal as a researcher is to connect speed and automation from top-down data modeling with explanatory power from bottom-up mechanistic modeling. She then rapidly develops new models that she uses to understand complex systems and design engineering solutions.
Mangan’s research allows her to infer things like structure and dynamics of biological and chemical networks and sets up potential to engineer products such as biofuels and high-value decarbonized chemicals.
Jeremy Hoskins
Jeremy Hoskins is an assistant professor in the Department of Statistics and a member of the Committee on Computational Applied Mathematics at the University of Chicago. He is also a member of the NITMB.
Hoskins  is interested in problems at the interface between physics, computation, and mathematics. A major theme is developing and analyzing numerical algorithms for simulating large-scale and complex physical systems, particularly those involving acoustic or electromagnetic waves. He also works on studying the mathematical foundations of problems arising in imaging, particularly what happens in highly-scattering and quantum systems.
He obtained his Ph.D. in 2017 at the University of Michigan and previously served as Gibbs Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Yale.
This article was republished from the Northwestern University McCormick School of Engineering and UChicago News.