The Omidyar Fellowship

New Leadership for New Science 

The Omidyar Fellowship at the Santa Fe Institute is unique among postdoctoral appointments. It offers select scholars the opportunity to join a collaborative research community where they grapple with some of the most compelling questions of our time. The Institute rejects compartmentalized thought common in academia. Instead, SFI scientists transcend boundaries between fields, freely synthesizing ideas spanning many disciplines – from math, physics, and biology to the social sciences and the humanities – in pursuit of creative insights that improve our world. Omidyar Fellows spend up to three years in residence at SFI, where they contribute to SFI’s research, advance the sciences of complexity into new frontiers, and become the “new leadership for new science.”