Sialog: Sustainable Minerals, Metals, and Materials

https://rescorp.org/scialog/sustainable-minerals-metals-materials

Due 3/10/25
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. 

This Scialog series will facilitate connections between approximately 50 early career (typically within eight years of their first independent appointment) chemists, materials scientists, geologists, ecologists, engineers, and energy system modelers, with the goal of catalyzing collaborative, cross-disciplinary projects to investigate how to design, manufacture, and recycle substances so that their use and production at scale is more compatible with ethical stewardship of our environment and decarbonizing the energy system. Presented in collaboration with Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and Kavli Foundation. Collaborative groups will get the opportunity to pitch ideas to foundation representatives for up to $60,000 in seed funding.

Sialog will be held September 10-13, 2025 in Tuscon, AZ. Self-nominations are due six months prior to Sialog start date. 
[Self Nomination]