Scialog
Scialog supports research, intensive dialogue, and community building to address scientific challenges of global significance. Within each multi-year initiative, Scialog Fellows participate in intensive discussions to identify bottlenecks and encourage innovative approaches, collaborate in high-risk discovery research on untested ideas, and communicate their progress in annual closed conferences. The Scialog process is guided by senior scientists recognized as world-leading researchers in the area of focus. Ultimately, Scialog aims to advance human knowledge by empowering a national community of early career scientists with many promising years of research ahead of them to tackle challenging multidisciplinary problems.
Scialog aims to support early career faculty to expand research in a focused area of high scientific importance; encourage scientists to form multidisciplinary teams to tackle these critical challenges; and help transition awardees to obtain further funding for their innovative ideas. Success for Scialog Fellows is measured by highly impactful results, ongoing support from private foundations and federal agencies, and, ultimately, scientific breakthroughs.
Becoming a Scialog Fellow
Approximately 50 early career faculty are invited to participate as Fellows for each Scialog, with early career spanning the time from the first year on the faculty through recently post-tenure. You may nominate yourself. To nominate another early career scientist, contact the program director or ask your colleague to self-nominate. Please check each initiative’s webpage for details and to determine if applications are being accepted.
Scialog Calendar
March 10-13, 2027
april 16-19, 2026
september 16-19,2026
september 15-18, 2027
Current & Upcoming Initiatives
To become a Fellow, please see application information on each initiative’s page.

2025 – 2027
Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems

2024 – 2027
Sustainable Minerals, Metals, and Materials

2024 – 2026
Early Science with the LSST

2024 – 2026
Automating Chemical Laboratories

2025-2027
Quantum Matter and Information
Completed Initiatives
2017-2019
2021-2023
2018-2021
2021-2023
2021-2023
2022-2024
2015-2017
2020-2023
2021-2023
2010-2014
2015-2016 & 2018-2019


Scialog Dashboard
Search all Scialog Fellows, Facilitators, and Awardees.
Scialog News
Articles
- “Scialog: The Catalysis of Convergence” in ACS Energy Letters
- “Why a Scialog on negative emissions science?” in iScience
- “Dynamics of social interaction: Modeling the genesis of scientific collaboration” in Physical Review Research
- “The Science of Scialog: How Conference Design Sparks Collaborations”
- “Face-to-Face or Face-to-Screen: A Quantitative Comparison of Conference Modalities” in PNAS Nexus.
- “Scialog Gets the Prototyping Mindset” blog post.







