Membership

FQxI Members are an essential part of our organization and our mission. An FQxI Member is a researcher (theoretical or experimental, or both) or outreach specialist who works on topics within the purview of FQxI, has a mindset supportive of FQxI’s goals and philosophy, and has excellent credentials and significant research/outreach accomplishment, and promise.*

Member benefits include

Eligibility to apply for Fulcrum Grants of $1,000 to $15,000 for travel, workshops, collaborations, equity work, and more related to questioning the foundations of science. These grants are for Members only.
Invitations to international conferences hosted by FQxI (based on capacity).
Posting privileges on FQxI’s Forums.
Participation in a community with scientists and outreach specialists excited to explore the foundations of science.

Criteria for Nominations and Self-Nominations

Is an exceptional researcher and/or has an exceptional record of outreach and equity work,
Works on Foundational Questions in Physics or Cosmology,
Has a Ph.D.,
And their academic interests align with FQxI’s foundational themes.

*Note on our current Membership nomination process: We are reconsidering the way Members are invited to expand beyond just the people our current Members know. In the meantime, we have decided to open our call for Membership to all, not just FQxI’s Members.

Open Call for Membership

All nominees must meet the basic criteria for nomination shared above.

We understand that the self-selecting nature of our nomination process might exclude people who are not known to our current Membership. As such, for a brief time, we are considering public nominations for Members whose research and outreach interests fit with FQxI’s goals. We are particularly interested in receiving nominations and self-nominations for Members who are from communities that are underrepresented and marginalized due to discrimination based on gender, sexual identity, race, ethnicity, or via ableism and other forms of oppressive bias.

Please submit a nomination or a self-nomination here.

FQxI MEMBERS

Members are initially listed in random order, but you may control that using the sort control in the list header below right. Use the search option (magnifying glass icon below) to find people by name or institute.

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Membership

Criteria for Nominations and Self-Nominations

Please submit a nomination or a self-nomination here.

Scott Thomas

Rutgers University

Franco Nori

RIKEN

Catalina Curceanu

LNF-INFN

Elias Okon

National Autonomous University of Mexico

George Ellis

University of Cape Town

Gerardo Adesso

The University of Nottingham

Patricia Palacios

University of Salzburg

Michael Hall

Griffith University

David Hestenes

Arizona State University, Emeritus

Josh Deutsch

University of California – Santa Cruz

Lev Vaidman

Tel Aviv University

Carlo Rovelli

Samy Maroun Center

Brendan Foster

Matt Visser

Victoria University

Sylvia Wenmackers

KU Leuven

Ekkehard Peik

PTB

Sara Seager

MIT

Seth Lloyd

MIT

Thomas Elliott

University of Manchester

Alexander Vilenkin

Tufts University

Claudia de Rham

Imperial College London

Adam Brown

Stanford University

Kevin Knuth

University at Albany

Mischa Woods

University College London

Matthew Leifer

Chapman University

Xiao-Gang Wen

MIT

Mairi Sakellariadou

King’s College London

Andreas Albrecht

University of California, Davis

Stefano Pironio

Université Libre de Bruxelles

Greg Laughlin

UC Santa Cruz

Janna Levin

Barnard College

Ken Olum

Tufts University

Max Tegmark

MIT

Jos Uffink

University of Minnesota

Mark Van Raamsdonk

University of British Columbia

Maaneli Derakhshani

Rutgers University

Matty Hoban

Goldsmiths, University of London