FQXi Membership

FQXi Members are the lifeblood of our organization. An FQXi Member is a researcher or outreach specialist who works on topics within the purview of FQXi, has a mindset supportive of FQXi goals and philosophy, and has excellent credentials and significant research/outreach accomplishment and promise.


Member Institution


Scott Aaronson MIT
Fred Adams University of Michigan
Anthony Aguirre UC Santa Cruz
Yakir Aharonov Tel Aviv University
David Albert Columbia University
Stephon Alexander Pennsylvania State University
Markus Aspelmeyer IQOQI
John Baez UC Riverside
Tom Banks UC Santa Cruz
Julian Barbour Independent
John W. Barrett Nottingham University
Jonathan Barrett Perimeter Institute
John Barrow Cambridge University
Jose Blanco-Pillado Tufts University
Nick Bostrom Oxford University
Raphael Bousso UC Berkeley
Caslav Brukner Vienna University
Dmitry Budker UC Berkeley
Jeremy Butterfield University of Cambridge
Bernard J. Carr Queen Mary, University of London
Sean Carroll California Institute of Technology
Gregory Chaitin IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
David Chalmers Australian National University
Christopher Chyba Princeton University
Louis Crane Kansas State University
Paul Davies Arizona State University
David Deutsch Oxford University
Savas Dimonpoulos Stanford University
John Donoghue University of Massachusetts
Olaf Dreyer Imperial College
Georgi Dvali New York University
Richard Easther Yale University
George F. R. Ellis University of Cape Town
David Finkelstein Georgia Tech
Willy Fischler University of Texas at Austin
Rodolfo Gambini University of the Republic, Uruguay
Jaume Garriga Universitat de Barcelona
Steven Giddings UC Santa Barbara
Steven Gratton Cambridge University
Brian Greene Columbia University
Alan Guth MIT
Lucien Hardy Perimeter Institute
Charles Harper John Templeton Foundation
David Hestenes Arizona State University, Emeritus
Craig J. Hogan University of Washington
Piet Hut Institute for Advanced Study
Christopher Isham Imperial College
Renata Kallosh Stanford University
Adrian Kent University of Cambridge
Justin Khoury Perimeter Institute
Claus Kiefer University of Cologne
Paul Kwiat University of Illinois
Greg Laughlin UC Santa Cruz
Tony Leggett University of Illinois
Matthew Leifer Perimeter Institute
Janna Levin Barnard College
Andrei Linde Stanford University
A. Garrett Lisi Fractured Atlas
Seth Lloyd MIT
Abraham Loeb Harvard University
Fotini Markopoulou Perimeter Institute
Laura Mersini-Houghton University of North Carolina
Farzad Nekoogar Multiversal Journeys
Ken Olum Tufts University
Daniele Oriti Utrecht University
Thanu Padmanabhan IUCAA
Don Page University of Alberta
Maulik Parikh Columbia University
Philip Pearle Hamilton College
Ekkehard Peik PTB
Jorge Pullin Louisiana State University
Lisa Randall Harvard University
Martin Rees Cambridge University
Carlo Rovelli CNRS
Simon Saunders Oxford University
Maximilian Schlosshauer University of Melbourne
Keith Schwab Cornell University
Sara Seager MIT
Eva Silverstein Stanford University
Lee Smolin Perimeter Institute
Rafael Sorkin Syracuse University
Robert Spekkens Cambridge University
Henry P. Stapp Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Leonard Susskind Stanford University
Gerard t Hooft Universiteit Utrecht
Max Tegmark MIT
Jeffrey Tollaksen George Mason University
Roderich Tumulka Eberhard-Karls-Universitaet
Jos Uffink Universitiet Utrecht
William Unruh University of British Columbia
Tanmay Vachaspati Case Western Reserve University
Antony Valentini Perimeter Institute
Vitaly Vanchurin Tufts University
Alexander Vilenkin Tufts University
Matt Visser Victoria University
David Wallace Oxford University
Steven Weinberg University of Texas at Austin
Xiao-Gang Wen MIT
Frank Wilczek MIT
David L. Wiltshire University of Canterbury
Serge Winitzki Ludwig-Maximilians University
Toby Wiseman Imperial College
Stephen Wolfram Wolfram Research
Dieter Zeh University of Heidelberg
Anton Zeilinger Austrian Academy of Sciences
Wojciech H. Zurek Los Alamos National Laboratory


New Members are added in two ways. First, successful FQXi grant PIs and contest winners are given Membership automatically. Second, nominations from the Membership itself are solicited semi-annually. Subject to approval by the FQXi Scientific Advisory Panel and Directorate, individuals with multiple nominations are added as Members.