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| Schmidt Science Polymaths | |
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| Awarded for | Research funding to support substantial new research directions after tenure |
| Sponsored by | Schmidt Sciences |
| Country | International |
| Reward | Up to US$2.5 million over five years (US$500,000 per year) |
| First award | 2021 |
| Website | www |
Schmidt Science Polymaths (also known as the Schmidt Science Polymath Program and informally as Schmidt Polymaths) is a research funding program that provides up to US$500,000 per year for up to five years to recently tenured university faculty to pursue new research directions that differ substantially from their prior work.[1][2] The program began making awards in 2021.[3]
Background and program design
The program is intended to support mid-career researchers seeking to pivot into new disciplinary or methodological areas, using flexible, multi-year funding that is not tightly bound to a single predefined project.[1] In a National Academies workshop discussion of experimental research-funding mechanisms, a representative of Schmidt Futures described the Polymath program as providing recently tenured researchers approximately US$2.5 million over five years to pursue research in a different field.[2]
A 2025 feature in Nautilus described the program’s selection pathway as nomination (e.g., via partner universities or individuals in Schmidt Sciences’ network), followed by invitation to apply; it also reported that, for the 2025 cohort, 130 applications were reviewed and eight awardees selected.[1]
Award structure
Awardees receive up to US$500,000 per year for up to five years, paid through their institution, to support research staff and project costs.[1][4] Media reporting on the early awards described the funding as “unrestricted” and oriented toward enabling recipients to pursue substantially new directions.[5]
Recipients
Recipients are listed below by cohort year.[4]
2021
2022
- Samir Bhatt — Imperial College London; University of Copenhagen
- Shelley Claridge — Purdue University
- Randy Goldsmith — University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Ido Kaminer — Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
- Ahmad Khalil — Boston University
- Lulu Qian — California Institute of Technology
- Andrew Saxe — University College London
- Suchitra Sebastian — University of Cambridge
- Sudip Shekhar — University of British Columbia
- Cassie Stoddard — Princeton University
2023
- Jörn Dunkel — Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Surya Ganguli — Stanford University
- Pincelli M. Hull — Yale University
- Markita del Carpio Landry — University of California, Berkeley
- Naomi Nakayama — Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology; Imperial College London
- David Soloveichik — University of Texas at Austin
- Wil Srubar — University of Colorado Boulder
- Christopher Trisos — University of Cape Town
- Sara Imari Walker — Arizona State University
2024
Six awardees were announced in 2024.[3]
- Neil Dasgupta — University of Michigan
- Lawrence David — Duke University
- Sam Gershman — Harvard University
- Stephanie E. Palmer — University of Chicago
- Orit Peleg — University of Colorado Boulder
- Ashleigh Theberge — University of Washington
2025
- Nozomi Ando — Cornell University
- Uri Ben-David — Tel Aviv University
- Saad Bhamla — Georgia Institute of Technology
- Damian Blasi — Pompeu Fabra University
- Polly Fordyce — Stanford University
- Arvind Murugan — University of Chicago
- Justin Solomon — Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Angela Wu — Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
See also
References
- ^ a b c d Williams, Shawna (October 8, 2025). "High-Tech Lollipops That Detect Disease". Nautilus. Retrieved December 29, 2025.
- ^ a b "Nongovernmental Perspectives on Experiments". NCBI Bookshelf. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Retrieved December 29, 2025.
- ^ a b "Schmidt Sciences Polymath Program Awards $2.5M Grants to Six Pioneering Researchers". SynBioBeta. September 19, 2024. Retrieved December 29, 2025.
- ^ a b "Schmidt Science Polymaths". Schmidt Sciences. Retrieved December 29, 2025.
- ^ Siegal, Tobias (October 25, 2020). "TAU prof. receives rare, unrestricted grant of $2.5 mil". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved December 29, 2025.
External links
Category:Science and technology awards Category:Research funding programs Category:Interdisciplinary research
References
Category:Science and technology awards Category:Research funding programs Category:Interdisciplinary research
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