Fellowships

SFI Complexity and Program Postdoctoral Fellows are selected from around the world and across science for their intellectual curiosity, quantitative rigor, and multidisciplinary creativity.

SFI Complexity and Program Postdoctoral Fellows are selected from around the world and across science for their intellectual curiosity, quantitative rigor, and multidisciplinary creativity. The SFI Complexity Postdoctoral Fellows are funded by gifts from Pam and Pierre Omidyar, the ASU-SFI Center for Biosocial Complex Systems and from individual donors. Chosen during an annual selection process, these Fellows pursue independent research agendas. Program Postdoctoral Fellows are grant funded, they are chosen by the grant PI and their research agenda is grant related. At SFI they enjoy exceptional freedom to post new research questions, collaborate with top minds in our international research network, and prepare to become tomorrow’s scientific leadership. All SFI fellows participate in a unique training program designed to develop their scientific, communication, and leadership skills. Most go on to hold faculty positions at major universities and research institutions, where they serve as lifelong ambassadors for the philosophies and methodologies of complexity science.

About the Omidyar Postdoctoral Fellowship

Societies today face daunting challenges: population growth, rapid urbanization, ecological and environmental disturbances, and an unpredictable global marketplace.

To address these complex and interrelated problems, a new brand of science is needed, led by an emerging generation of scientists steeped in the study of interconnected systems and comfortable in the methods of many fields — from math, physics, and biology to the social sciences and the humanities. The Omidyar Fellowship at the Santa Fe Institute offers a select group of early-career scholars the opportunity to join a collaborative research community that nurtures creative, transdisciplinary thought in pursuit of key insights about the complex systems that matter most for science and society. Postdoctoral researchers selected for the SFI Omidyar Fellowship spend up to three years in residence at SFI, where they contribute to the Institute’s research, advance the sciences of complexity, and prepare to become the leadership for tomorrow’s science.