Two Northwestern chemistry professors were named 2015 Sloan Fellows and will each receive a $50,000 fellowship, the University announced Monday.

Danna Freedman and Toru Shiozaki are assistant professors in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and are among 126 scientists and scholars to receive the Sloan Research Fellowship for 2015 from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

The $50,000 fellowships support eight specific fields: computer science, chemistry, mathematics, computational and evolutionary molecular biology, economics, neuroscience, physics and ocean sciences.

Freedman, who in the past has been awarded the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Award in Environmental Chemistry, researches synthetic inorganic chemistry and its relationship to physics and energy research.

Shiozaki, who received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2014, “develops novel electronic structure theories to realize quantitative modeling of molecules and materials,” the University said in a news release.

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