Prashant Jain was named a 2014 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Chemistry. The Sloan Research Fellowships are extraordinarily competitive awards involving nominations of the very best scientists of the generation from the United States and Canada. The prestigious awards are given to scientists, mathematicians, and economists and come with a $50,000 two-year research grant. The U of I News Bureau has reported on Prof. Jain's award (http://news.illinois.edu/news/14/0218sloan_PBrightonGodfrey_PrashantJain_ShinseiRyu.html).
Prof. Jain received his B.Tech. degree from the Institute of Chemical Technology in Mumbai, India in 2003. He moved to Georgia Tech and obtained his Ph.D. in physical chemistry with M. A. El-Sayed in 2008. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard in 2008, and from 2009-2011 he was a Miller Fellow at UC Berkeley. He joined the Illinois faculty as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry in 2011. He is also affiliated with the Materials Research Lab, the Department of Physics, and the Beckman Institute. His research in molecular and nano-optics has earlier been recognized with a DuPont Young Professor Award.
Exerpt from a email sent by Gregory Girolami