Our grantmaking efforts focus on mathematical and physical sciences, life sciences and autism research.
Founded in 2014, the Simons Society of Fellows is a community of scholars that encourages intellectual interactions across disciplines and across research centers in the New York City area.
Senior Fellows are distinguished scientists based in New York City. Junior Fellows are outstanding young scientists who receive support from the foundation for three years to conduct independent research at an institution of higher learning in New York City, with no teaching obligations.
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Scientists, including members of the Simons Collaboration on the Origins of Life, are abandoning conventional thinking to search for extraterrestrial creatures that bear little resemblance to Earthlings.
The Simons Foundation is providing annual grants to the country’s chemists, biologists, physicists and mathematicians. These funds are meant to help sustain hundreds of Ukrainian scientists whose work was disrupted when Russia invaded their country last year.
The physics community has begun to consider what they want to do next, and why. That is the mandate of a committee appointed by the National Academy of Sciences, called Elementary Particle Physics: Progress and Promise.
Flatiron Institute astrophysicist Matteo Cantiello weighs in on recent research that finds magnetic fields and turbulence amplify each other inside stars’ hidden layers, slowing down the stellar cores’ spin.
