Oxford, October 20, 2022 – Schmidt Science Fellows, an initiative of Schmidt Futures in partnership with the Rhodes Trust, is proud to announce the first recipients of the new Senior Fellows Catalyst Grants. The Catalyst Grant Scheme aims to support new interdisciplinary science ideas from our Senior Fellows (alumni) community and foster cross-Fellowship collaborations. Schmidt … Continued
New research led by Senior Fellow, Dr. Ryan Truby, and published in Science Advances demonstrates a new way to 3D print materials that perceive how they move and interact with their environments. This work has potential for a wide-ranging set of applications and technologies, including wearable sensors in smart apparel, smart structures that perceive loading … Continued
Congratulations to 2021 Fellow Sebastian Musslick and 2022 Fellow Tim Sainburg who were both recently awarded the Robert J. Glushko Dissertation Prize, presented by the Cognitive Science Society and the Glushko-Samuelson Foundation. The annual prize is awarded to five outstanding dissertations in the field of cognitive science and seeks to highlight interdisciplinary efforts in understanding … Continued
A new study in Nature Biotechnology demonstrates a new method for comprehensive profiling of living cells through the development of a new chemistry tool. The work introduces scission-accelerated fluorophore exchange (SAFE), a new technique allowing scientists to study and probe living cells over time as they change and develop. Previous techniques were often destructive or … Continued
This case study features in the Schmidt Science Fellows Annual Report 2020-2021. Dr. OJ Watson is a 2020 Schmidt Science Fellow and infectious disease modeler. He completed his PhD at Imperial College London before being granted an exceptional deferral by Schmidt Science Fellows to pursue COVID-19 work at a critical time during the pandemic. His response to … Continued
This case study features in the Schmidt Science Fellows Annual Report 2020-2021. Dr. Yogesh Goyal is a member of the inaugural cohort of Schmidt Science Fellows, selected in 2018. As a first-generation low-income student born and raised in rural Jammu and Kashmir, Yogesh studied for his undergraduate degree at to the Indian Institute of Technology … Continued
This case study features in the Schmidt Science Fellows Annual Report 2020-2021. Dr. Amy Shepherd is a 2020 Schmidt Science Fellow trying to understand the role of the millions of neurons that exist in the gut and what the link is between gastrointestinal symptoms and neurological disease. She is working at Boston Children’s Hospital in … Continued
READ THE ANNUAL REPORT IN FULL HERE We are pleased to publish our third Annual Report, covering August 2020 to December 2021. This edition of our Annual Report includes stories and reviews of a crucial period in the development of the Schmidt Science Fellows Program – as the Fellowship moved from an early start-up phase … Continued
COVID-19 vaccines reduced the potential global death toll by more than half in the year following their implementation according to new research led by 2020 Fellow OJ Watson published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. The first modeling study to examine the impact of COVID-19 vaccinations has estimated that almost 20m lives were saved during 2021 … Continued
Juncal Arbelaiz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Juncal has been investigating the underpinning theoretical and computational techniques required for the successful development of soft robots. Soft robots have huge potential as they can adapt their form to their environments, making them ideal for exploratory, search and rescue, or surgical applications. As a Schmidt Science Fellow, Juncal … Continued