Apply to the founding cohort

150 places. Your rank, one paragraph on what you intend to build, and one on what you will contribute. About fifteen minutes, and every application is read.

Applications open 28 October, Applications close 7 November at midnight, The founding cohort has closed

The questions are here now. Submitting opens on 28 October.

Read them, take your rank, and draft your answers. Your draft is saved in this browser as you type, so it will be waiting when applications open.

Take your rank first

The founding cohort has closed.

Applications closed at midnight on 7 November and the close was honoured. The next intake is at the March equinox, on 20 March 2027.

In the meantime, take your rank and read the charter. Both stay open all year.

Take your rank Read the charter

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You

Full name

Field

For example: condensed matter physics, bioprocess engineering, machine learning.

Career stage

Institution or organisation Optional

Chapters are founded at one institution, so this tells us where the first ones could be.

Your rank

The diagnostic gives you your tier and your three strongest skills, highest first. It takes five minutes.

Tier Strongest Second Third

Your rank string

Evidence link or ORCID iD Optional

A link turns a claim from declared to evidenced. Published member ranks carry evidence, and the top two tiers are verified.

What you intend to build

One paragraph. A company, a lab, a programme, a body of work, a move into a new role. Be specific about what exists at the end that does not exist now.

What you will contribute

One paragraph. Scouting notes, company teardowns, a chapter, a talk, teaching, a written skill breakdown for the dispatch. What will you give the Society in its first year?

Membership rate

£96 a year · Students and pre-doctoral£8 a month. Self-declared, with no proof required. £300 a year · StandardPostdocs, staff scientists, engineers, founders and industry.

No payment is taken with this application. The founding cohort keeps its entry rate for life.

I would consider founding or leading a chapter at my institution. Chapter Leads pay no fee while they hold the post.

Commitments I have read the charter and agree to be held to the nine tenets. I understand membership carries four duties: an honest rank update each quarter, one contribution each quarter, one convocation a year, and one call a year with a member ranked below me.

Apply to the founding cohort

The questions are here now. Submitting opens on 28 October.

The founding cohort has closed.

Thank you. Your application is in.