Convergent Research
Adam Marblestone has a diverse and accomplished work experience in various research and leadership roles. Adam is currently the Chief Executive Officer at Convergent Research. Prior to this, they worked as a Research Director at Astera Institute and as a Schmidt Futures Innovation Fellow at Schmidt Futures. Adam also served as a Research Scientist at DeepMind and held positions at MIT Media Lab, Kernel, MIT Synthetic Neurobiology Group, Harvard University, Yale University, and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Adam Marblestone completed their education with a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Physics from Yale University in 2009. Adam then pursued their Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Biophysics at Harvard University from 2009 to 2014. Additionally, in 2009 to 2010, Marblestone was a visiting student/researcher at the MIT Media Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Convergent Research
New types of organization are needed to accelerate scientific progress. Academic research groups and startup companies are essential to science and technology development. But there are some projects they just aren’t suited for. A university astronomy lab couldn’t have launched the Hubble Space Telescope on its own, nor would a venture-backed startup have built the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Hubble and CERN illustrate a common pattern in science: a need for projects that are bigger than an academic lab can undertake, more coordinated than a loose consortium or themed department, and not directly profitable enough to be a venture-backed startup or industrial R&D project. Focused Research Organizations (FROs) are a new type of scientific institution designed to fill this gap.