A University of Maryland cognitive neuroscience researcher working to understand the mechanisms of how we learn from and about other people has been awarded a 2026 Sloan Research Fellowship, one of the most competitive and prestigious honors dedicated to early-career scientists. 

Assistant Professor Caroline Charpentier of the Department of Psychology and UMD’s Brain and Behavior Institute is one of 126 early-career researchers at U.S. and Canadian educational institutions lauded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation as “the next generation of leaders.” Fifty-nine Sloan fellows have received a Nobel Prize, including John Clarke, last year’s Nobel laureate in physics; more than 70 UMD faculty members have received the Sloan Fellowship.

Winners receive a two-year, $75,000 fellowship which can be used flexibly to advance their research.

Read more about Professor Charpentier and her research here. 

Caroline Charpentier leads the Social Learning and Decisions Lab, where she and her collaborators use data-driven methods to predict mental health symptoms. (Photo by John T. Consoli)