FQXi Advisory Council
John Barrow
Cambridge University
Nick Bostrom
Oxford University
Gregory Chaitin
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro UFRJ
David Chalmers
New York University
Patricia Gruber
Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation
Robert Lawrence Kuhn
"Closer to Truth"
Christopher Liedel
Smithsonian Enterprises
Bruce McWilliams
Tessera
Martin Rees
Cambridge University
Eva Silverstein
Stanford University
Lee Smolin
Perimeter Institute
Melanie Swan
MS Futures Group
Frank Wilczek
MIT
Dieter Zeh
University of Heidelberg
John Barrow
Cambridge University
Nick Bostrom
Oxford University
Gregory Chaitin
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro UFRJ
David Chalmers
New York University
Patricia Gruber
Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation
Robert Lawrence Kuhn
"Closer to Truth"
Christopher Liedel
Smithsonian Enterprises
Bruce McWilliams
Tessera
Martin Rees
Cambridge University
Eva Silverstein
Stanford University
Lee Smolin
Perimeter Institute
Melanie Swan
MS Futures Group
Frank Wilczek
MIT
Dieter Zeh
University of Heidelberg
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.
Please see the bottom of the page for information on how to become an FQXi Member.
Member | Institution |
Scott Aaronson | MIT |
Antonio Acin | ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences |
Fred C Adams | University of Michigan |
Gerardo Adesso | The University of Nottingham |
Emily Christine Adlam | The University of Cambridge |
Anthony Aguirre ![]() |
UC Santa Cruz |
Yakir Aharonov | Tel Aviv University |
Larissa Albantakis | University of Wisconsin, Madison |
David Albert | Columbia University |
Andreas Albrecht | University of California, Davis |
Stephon Alexander ![]() |
Haverford College |
Lee Altenberg | University of Hawai'i at Mānoa |
Giovanni Amelino-Camelia | University La Sapienza |
Edward Anderson | |
Marcus Appleby | University of Sydney |
Natalia Ares | University of Oxford |
Nathan Argaman | Nuclear Research Center Negev |
Abhay Ashtekar | Pennsylvania State University |
Markus Aspelmeyer | IQOQI |
Alexia Auffeves | Institut Neel - CNRS |
Eugeny Babichev | Laboratoire de Physique Theorique d'Orsay |
Guido Bacciagaluppi | Utrecht University |
John C Baez | UC Riverside |
Amedeo Balbi | Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma Tor Vergata |
Tom Banks | UC Santa Cruz |
Julian Barbour | Independent |
Carlos Barcelò | Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA-CSIC) |
Edi Barkai | University of Haifa |
Howard N Barnum | Leibniz Universität Hannover and University of New Mexico |
Jeffrey Alan Barrett | University of California, Irvine |
John W. Barrett | Nottingham University |
Jonathan Barrett | University of Oxford |
Angelo Bassi | University of Trieste |
John Bechhoefer | Simon Fraser University |
Daniel John Bedingham | |
Iosif Bena | IPhT, CEA Saclay |
William Bialek | Princeton University |
Jacob Biamonte | Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology |
Eugenio Bianchi | The Pennsylvania State University |
Felix Binder | Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information |
Jose Blanco-Pillado | Tufts University |
Diego Blas | CERN |
Miles P. Blencowe | Dartmouth College |
Martin Bojowald | Pennsylvania State University |
Tommaso Bolognesi | CNR - ISTI |
Nick Bostrom | Oxford University |
Raphael Bousso | UC Berkeley |
Jonathan Braden | Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics |
Robert Brandenberger | McGill University |
Adam Brown | Stanford University |
Harvey Brown | University of Oxford |
Katherine Brown | Hamilton College |
Caslav Brukner | University of Vienna & Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information |
Jeffrey Bub | University of Maryland |
Thomas Buchert | Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 |
DMITRY BUDKER | Helmholtz Institute Mainz |
Jeremy Butterfield | University of Cambridge |
Peter Byrne | Art & Science Laboratory |
Adan Cabello | University of Seville |
Craig Callender | University of California, San Diego |
Steven Carlip | UC Davis |
Bernard John Carr | Queen Mary, University of London |
Sean Carroll | California Institute of Technology |
Ariel Caticha | University at Albany, State University of New York |
Eric G. Cavalcanti | Griffith University |
Gregory Chaitin | Federal University of Rio de Janeiro UFRJ |
David Chalmers ![]() |
New York University |
Giulio Chiribella | The University of Hong Kong |
Hyung S Choi | Greenville College |
Christopher Chyba | Princeton University |
Milan M Cirkovic | Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade |
Bob Coecke | Oxford University |
Samuel Colin | Theiss Research |
David Craig | Oregon State University |
Louis Crane | Kansas State University |
Gavin Crooks | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
Karen Crowther | University of Geneva |
Elise M Crull | The City College of New York |
James P Crutchfield | Physics Department |
Catalina Curceanu | LNF-INFN |
Erik Curiel | Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (LMU Munich) |
Thomas L Curtright | University of Miami |
Giacomo Mauro D'Ariano | Università di Pavia |
Raissa D'Souza | University of California, Davis |
Borivoje Dakic | Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information |
Paul Davies ![]() |
Arizona State University |
Claudia de Rham | Imperial College London |
Simon DeDeo | Santa Fe Institute |
Sebastian Deffner | University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) |
Lidia del Rio | ETH Zurich |
David Deutsch | Oxford University |
Josh Deutsch | University of California - Santa Cruz |
Daniel Dewey | Future of Humanity Institute |
Savas Dimopoulos | Stanford University |
Michael Dine | University of California, Santa Cruz |
Lajos Diosi | Wigner Research Centre for Physics |
Bianca Dittrich | Perimeter Institute |
John Donoghue | University of Massachusetts |
Jonathan Dowling | Louisiana State University |
Laurance Reeve Doyle | SETI Institute |
Tevian Dray | Oregon State University |
Olaf Dreyer | Imperial College |
Benjamin F. Dribus | William Carey University |
Cristhiano Andre Duarte | Chapman University |
Ian Durham | Saint Anselm College |
Thomas Durt | Ecole Centrale de Marseille-Institut Fresnel |
Georgi Dvali | New York University |
Damien Alexander Easson | Arizona State University |
Richard Easther | University of Auckland |
Astrid Eichhorn | University of Southern Denmark; University of Heidelberg |
Jens Eisert | Free University of Berlin |
Thomas Joseph Elliott | Imperial College London |
George F. R. Ellis ![]() |
University of Cape Town |
Joseph Emerson | University of Waterloo |
Klaus Ensslin | ETH Zürich |
Massimiliano Esposito | University of Luxembourg |
Arkady Fedorov | University of Queensland |
Stefano Finazzi | Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research |
Willy Fischler | University of Texas at Austin |
Victor Flambaum | University of New South Wales |
Samuel C. Fletcher | University of Minnesota |
Brendan Foster | |
Ben Freivogel | GRAPPA |
Tobias Fritz | Department of Mathematics, University of Innsbruck |
Christopher A. Fuchs | University of Massachusetts Boston |
Ivette Fuentes | University of Nottingham |
Rodolfo Gambini | University of the Republic, Uruguay |
Luis J. Garay | Universidad Complutense de Madrid |
David Garfinkle | Oakland University |
Andrew J P Garner | National University of Singapore |
Jaume Garriga | Universitat de Barcelona |
Saikat Ghosh | Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur |
Steven Giddings | UC Santa Barbara |
Richard Gill | Leiden University |
Vittorio Giovannetti | Piazza dei Cavalieri |
Nicolas Gisin | Université de Genève |
Domenico Giulini | Leibniz University of Hannover |
Shelly Goldstein | Rutgers University |
Henrique Gomes | Cambridge University |
Philip Goyal | University at Albany (SUNY) |
Steven Gratton | Kavli Institute for Cosmology and Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University |
Brian Greene | Columbia University |
Alexei Grinbaum | CEA |
Sean Gryb | University of Bristol |
Mile Gu | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
Otfried Guehne | University of Siegen |
Eduardo I. Guendelman | Physics Dept. Ben Gurion University |
Lawrence Hall | University of California, Berkeley |
Michael Hall | Griffith University |
Jonathan Halliwell | Imperial College London |
Andrew J S Hamilton | JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder |
John Harding | New Mexico State University |
Lucien Hardy | Perimeter Institute |
Jenny Harrison | UC Berkeley |
Stephan Hartmann | Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy |
Patrick Hayden | Stanford University |
Richard Andrew Healey | University of Arizona |
David Hestenes | Arizona State University, Emeritus |
Matty Hoban | Goldsmiths, University of London |
Philipp Hoehn | University College London |
Craig J. Hogan | University of Chicago |
Jakob Hohwy | Monash University |
Sabine Hossenfelder | FIAS |
Masahiro Hotta | Tohoku University |
Benjamin Huard | Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon |
Veronika E Hubeny | UC Davis |
Marcus Huber | Austrian Academy of Sciences |
Nick Huggett | University of Illinois at Chicago |
Piet Hut | Institute for Advanced Study |
Christopher Isham | Imperial College |
Jenann Ismael | Columbia University |
Ted Jacobson | University of Maryland at College Park |
Christopher Jarzynski | University of Maryland |
Matthew Johnson | Perimeter Institute |
Richard Jozsa | University of Cambridge |
Renata E Kallosh | Stanford University Physics Department |
Joanna Karczmarek | University of British Columbia |
Dagomir Kaszlikowski | Centre for Quantum Technologies |
Adrian Kent | University of Cambridge |
Gaurav Khanna | UMass Dartmouth |
Justin Khoury | Perimeter Institute |
Claus Kiefer | University of Cologne |
Johannes Kleiner | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich |
Matthias Kleinmann | University of Siegen |
Paul Knott | University of Nottingham |
Eleanor Knox | King's College London |
Kevin H Knuth | University at Albany |
Tim Andreas Koslowski | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
Mikhail Kozlov | Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute |
Yakov Kremnitzer | |
Robert Lawrence Kuhn | "Closer to Truth" |
Pawel Kurzynski | Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan |
Paul Kwiat | University of Illinois |
Thom LaBean | North Carolina State University |
Ludovico Lami | Universität Ulm |
Klaas Landsman | Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen |
Jan-Ake Larsson | University of Linkoping |
Greg Laughlin | UC Santa Cruz |
Tony Leggett | University of Illinois |
Matthew Saul Leifer | Chapman University |
Janna Levin | Barnard College |
Stefano Liberati | SISSA |
Eugene Lim | Columbia University |
Andrei Linde ![]() |
Stanford University |
Antony Garrett Lisi | Theiss Research |
Seth Lloyd ![]() |
MIT |
Abraham Loeb | Harvard University |
Olimpia Lombardi | CONICET-University of Buenos Aires |
Peter J Love | Tufts University |
David Anthony Lowe | Brown University |
Lorenzo Maccone | Universita' di Pavia |
Joao Magueijo | Imperial College London |
Ville Maisi | Lund University |
Jarmo Matti Mäkelä | Vaasa University of Applied Sciences |
Alex Maloney | McGill University |
Stefano Mancini | University of Camerino |
Corinne A. Manogue | Oregon State University |
Matilde Marcolli | Caltech |
Fotini Markopoulou ![]() |
Perimeter Institute |
Chiara Marletto | University of Oxford |
Donald Marolf | University of California |
Lluis Masanes | University College London |
Jonathan William Mason | Mathematical Institute |
Samir D. Mathur | The Ohio State University |
Tim Maudlin | New York University |
Zeeya Merali | Foundational Questions Institute |
Flavio Mercati | Physics Department, Sapienza University of Rome |
Laura Mersini-Houghton | University of North Carolina |
Gerard James Milburn | The University of Queensland |
Simon Milz | IQOQI Vienna |
Ettore Minguzzi | University of Florence, Italy |
Kavan Modi | Monash University |
John William Moffat | Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics |
Markus P Mueller | Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information |
George Musser | Scientific American |
Wayne C. Myrvold | The University of Western Ontario |
Rahul Nandkishore | University of Colorado at Boulder |
Miguel Navascués | IQOQI |
Farzad Nekoogar | Multiversal Journeys |
Alyssa Ney | University of California, Davis |
Yasunori Nomura | UC Berkeley |
Franco Nori | RIKEN |
Travis Ty Norsen | Smith College |
Ken Olum | Tufts University |
Jonathan Oppenheim | University of Cambridge |
Daniele Oriti | Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics |
Thanu Padmanabhan | IUCAA |
Don Page | University of Alberta |
Tim Palmer | University of Oxford |
Jian-Wei Pan | University of Science and Technology of China |
Siddharth Parameswaran | University of California, Irvine |
Gheorghe-Sorin Sorin Paraoanu | Aalto University |
Renaud Parentani | Universite Paris-Sud |
Maulik Parikh | Arizona State University |
Tomasz Paterek | Nanyang Technological University |
Subodh Patil | Niels Bohr Institute |
Philip Pearle | Hamilton College |
Ekkehard Peik | PTB |
Hiranya V. Peiris | University College London |
Jukka Pekola | Aalto University |
Roger Penrose ![]() |
Oxford University |
Alejandro Perez | Centre de Physique Théorique |
Paolo Perinotti | University of Pavia |
Marco Piani | University of Strathclyde |
Stefano Pironio | Université Libre de Bruxelles |
Andrew Pontzen | University College London |
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein | University of Washington |
Huw Price | University of Cambridge |
Jorge Pullin | Louisiana State University |
Matthew F Pusey | University of York |
Lisa Randall ![]() |
Harvard University |
Martin Rees ![]() |
Cambridge University |
Michael Reisenberger | Theiss Research |
Renato Renner | ETH Zurich |
Kevin Resch | University of Waterloo |
Dean Rickles | University of Sydney |
David Rideout | University of California, San Diego |
Bryan W. Roberts | London School of Economics |
Carlo Rovelli | Samy Maroun Center |
Moshe Rozali | University of British Columbia |
Subir Sachdev | Harvard University |
Ana Belen Sainz | International Centre for Theory of Quantum Technologies - University of Gdansk |
Mairi Sakellariadou | King's College London |
Michael Salem | Tufts University |
Peter Samuelsson | Lund University |
Saswat Sarangi | Columbia University |
Simon Saunders | Oxford University |
Steven Savitt | University of British Columbia |
Ignacy Sawicki | Dept. de physique theorique, Université de Genève |
Ruediger Schack | Royal Holloway, University of London |
Maximilian Schlosshauer | University of Portland |
Jörg Schmiedmayer | Atominstitut Vienna |
Susan Schneider | FAU Brain Institute |
Urs Schreiber | Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS) Prague |
Ralf Schuetzhold | Universitat Duisburg-Essen |
Benjamin Schumacher | Kenyon College |
Keith Charles Schwab | Caltech |
Delia Schwartz-Perlov | Tufts University |
Sara Seager | MIT |
Rick Searle | Institute for Ethics of Emerging Technologies |
Marc Séguin | Collège de Maisonneuve |
Woodrow Lee Shew | University of Arkansas |
Benjamin Shlaer | Tufts Institute of Cosmology |
Tony Short | University of Bristol |
Sally Shrapnel | University of Queensland |
Sergey Sibiryakov | INR RAS |
Tejinder Pal Singh | Tata Institute of Fundamental Research |
David Sloan | Lancaster University |
Lee Smolin ![]() |
Perimeter Institute |
Rafael Sorkin | Syracuse University & Perimeter Institute |
Thomas Sotiriou | University of Nottingham |
Donald Spector | Hobart & William Smith Colleges |
Robert W. Spekkens | Perimeter Institute |
Henry P. Stapp | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
Glenn Starkman | Case Western Reserve University |
Aephraim Matthew Steinberg | University of Toronto |
Susanne Still | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
Andrew Strominger | Harvard University |
Daniel Sudarsky | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
Sumati Surya | Raman Research Institute |
Leonard Susskind | Stanford University |
Gerard t Hooft | Universiteit Utrecht |
Reza Tavakol | Queen Mary, University of London |
Max Tegmark ![]() |
MIT |
Scott Thomas | Rutgers University |
Jayne Thompson | National University of Singapore, Centre for Quantum Technologies |
Larus Thorlacius | University of Iceland |
Christopher Gordon Timpson | Brasenose College |
Jeffrey Tollaksen | Chapman University |
David Tong | University of Cambridge |
Naotsugu Tsuchiya | Monash University |
Tommaso Tufarelli | University of Nottingham |
Roderich Tumulka | University of Tübingen |
Neil Turok | Perimeter Institute |
Jos Uffink | University of Minnesota |
Hendrik Ulbricht | University of Southampton |
William Unruh | University of British Columbia |
Jean-Phillipe Uzan | Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris |
Tanmay Vachaspati | Arizona State University |
Antony Valentini | Department of Physics and Astronomy |
Jan Pieter van der Schaar | University of Amsterdam |
Mark Van Raamsdonk | University of British Columbia |
Vitaly Vanchurin | University of Minnesota |
Vlatko Vedral | University of Oxford |
Jamie Oliver Vicary | Department of Computer Science |
Alexander Vikman | Institute of Physics (FZU) of the Czech Academy of Sciences (ASCR) |
Alexander Vilenkin ![]() |
Tufts University |
Matt Visser | Victoria University |
Sara Imari Walker | Arizona State University |
David Wallace | University of Pittsburgh |
Jan Walleczek | Fetzer Franklin Foundation |
Joel Wallman | University of Waterloo |
James Owen Weatherall | University of California, Irvine |
Brian Wecht | Queen Mary University of London |
Gregor Weihs | University of Innsbruck |
Steven Weinberg ![]() |
University of Texas at Austin |
Silke Christine Edith Weinfurtner | The University of Nottingham |
Steve Weinstein | University of Waterloo |
Xiao-Gang Wen | MIT |
Sylvia Wenmackers | KU Leuven |
Reinhard F. Werner | University of Hanover |
Geoffrey B. West | Santa Fe Institute |
Hans F Westman | IFF, CSIC |
Ken Wharton | San Jose State University |
Alexander Wilce | Susquehanna University |
Frank Wilczek ![]() |
MIT |
Ralph Willox | Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, the University of Tokyo |
David L. Wiltshire | University of Canterbury |
Serge Winitzki | Ludwig-Maximilians University |
Howard Wiseman | Griffith University |
Toby Wiseman | Imperial College |
Stephen Wolfram ![]() |
Wolfram Research |
David Wolpert | Santa Fe Institute |
Richard Woodard | University of Florida |
Mischa Woods | University College London |
William Kent Wootters | Williams College |
Yong-Shi Wu | University of Utah |
Christian Wuthrich | University of Geneva |
Noson S. Yanofsky | Brooklyn College |
Anton Zeilinger | IQOQI - Wien |
Hector Zenil | Algorithmic Nature Lab, LABORES |
Wojciech H. Zurek ![]() |
Los Alamos National Laboratory |
Michael Zwolak | National Institute of Standards and Technology |
In Memoriam
FQXi mourns the loss of our following Members:
John Barrow (1952–2020; FQXi Advisory Council Member)
Paul Busch (1955–2018)
David R. Finkelstein (1929-2016)
Joe Polchinski (1954–2018)
H. Dieter Zeh (1932-2018; FQXi Advisory Council Member)
Process to Become a FQXi Member
There are three ways to become an FQXi Member:
- First, successful PIs of FQXi's Large Grant programs are given Membership nominations automatically;
- Second, FQXi solicits nominations from current Members semi-annually. Subject to approval by FQXi, individuals with multiple nominations, whose work fits within FQXi's mission, are invited as Members.
- Third, top FQXi contest winners (1st prize winners) are nominated for Membership and will undergo the same review process as Member nominees.
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