At SFI, resident students — undergraduates through postdoctoral level — participate in multidisciplinary, multigenerational research collaborations. The working environment within these groups is free-form and egalitarian. Students and senior scientists shift, between collecting and analyzing data from literature, modeling (delineating starting assumptions, constructing equations to capture essential processes, listing testable variables, and building hypotheses), and empirical evaluation (compiling and analyzing data to determine the validity of assumptions and accuracy of hypotheses). Responsibilities and rewards, including senior authorships and presentations at meetings, are shared so that everyone has the opportunity to play leadership roles and to learn from seeing manuscripts through to publication.
Internship Opportunities
Research Experiences for Undergraduates
Individual Research with Resident Faculty
Mentorship Opportunities
Project GUTS: Growing Up Thinking Scientifically
In an SFI Community Lecture on Wednesday evening, November 6, in Santa Fe, historian George Dyson tells the story of ...
Graduate students and postdocs participating in SFI's 2013 Complex Systems Summer School collaborated to develop some 15 original research ...
An article in the Science Careers section of the journal Science describes the challenges of cross-disciplinary collaboration, mentioning SFI as ...