Fellowships
We identify select early-career scientists from around the world and develop them into tomorrow’s leaders in complexity science.
SFI postdoctoral fellows are selected from around the world and across science for their intellectual curiosity, quantitative rigor, and multidisciplinary creativity.
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.
The SFI Omidyar Postdoctoral Fellowship
Supported by Pierre and Pam Omidyar, this highly competitive fellowship sets the standard for multidisciplinary postdoctoral programs, encouraging fellows to develop and pursue their own research questions without boundaries or restrictions.
The ASU-SFI Postdoctoral Fellowship
Our joint program with Arizona State University, the ASU-SFI Center for Biosocial Complex Systems, supports postdoctoral researchers who are asking solution-driven questions at the intersection of human society and the biological world.
The SFI Program Postdoctoral Fellows
Selected for their multidisciplinary backgrounds, program fellows collaborate with Institute faculty on research supported by such organizations as NASA, the National Science Foundation, the Templeton World Charity Foundation, and the James S. McDonnell Foundation.
The James S. McDonnell Foundation Fellows
SFI is the professional development hub for postdoctoral fellows of the James S. McDonnell Foundation, a matchup that provides Institute fellows opportunities to collaborate with peers in this elite international program.
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.
Current Omidyar Fellows
Past SFI Postdoctoral Fellows
Eizo Akiyama
Ben Althouse
Clio Andris
Ruben Andrist
Nihat Ay
Dave Bacon
Homayoun Bagheri-Chaichian
Mark Bieda
Eric Bonabeau
Elhanan Borenstein
Rogier Braakman
P. Jeffrey Brantingham
Christa Brelsford
Caroline Buckee
Lauren Buckley
Emily Burkhead
Fabio Caccioli
Juan Camilo Cárdenas
Martin Casdagli
Xingzhi Cheng
Jung-Kyoo Choi
Stanca Ciupe
Aaron Clauset
Nathan Collins
Bryan Daniels
Caterina De Bacco
Simon DeDeo
Vincent Detours
Marion Dumas
Jennifer Dunne
Nathan Eagle
Gunther Eble
Charles Efferson
Tanya Elliott
Brian Enquist
Vanessa Ferdinand
Evandro Ferrada
Jessica Flack
Walter Fontana
Tyler Frazier
Miguel Fuentes
Michael Gastner
Keyan Ghazi-Zahedi
Michelle Girvan
Justin Grana
Valerie Gremillion
Josh Grochow
Marcus Hamilton
Jing Han
Tim Hely
Paul Hooper
Wim Hordijk
Chen Hou
Peter Hraber
Daniel Hruschka
Martijn Huynen
Terry Jones
Yoav Kallus
Anne Kandler
Timothy Keitt
Chris Kempes
Tom Kepler
Bette Korber
Supriya Krishnamurthy
Michael Lachmann
Joshua Ladau
Daniel Larremore
Bennett Levitan
Wentian Li
Fabrizio Lillo
William Macready
Daniel McShea
Lauren Ancel Meyers
John Miller
Cristopher Moore
Béla Nagy
Avidan Neumann
Mark Newman
Makoto Nirei
James O'Dwyer
Scott Ortman
Ludo Pagie
Milan Palus
John Pepper
Charles Perreault
Ole Peters
Eleanor Power
William Reynolds
Thimo Rohlf
Yuzuru Sato
Van Savage
Sam Scarpino
Markus Schläpfer
Cosma Shalizi
Spyros Skouras
D. Eric Smith
Caitlin Stern
James Theiler
Bence Tóth
Brendan Tracey
Jessika Trancik
Jeremy Van Cleve
Sander van Doorn
Erik Van Nimwegen
Dowman Varn
Andreas Wagner
Duncan Watts
Colleen Webb
Karoline Wiesner
David Wolpert
Justin Yeakel
Hyejin Youn
Karina Yusim
Pan Zhang
Huaiyu Zhu