April 30, 2025
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Contact:
Jason Papagan
Manager of Communications
Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society
jpapagan@sigmaxi.org
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC—Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society is pleased to announce the selection of Meg Shieh to attend the 74th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting dedicated to Chemistry. A fourth year PhD candidate at Brown University, Shieh has been a Sigma Xi member since 2023. She will attend the prestigious six-day event beginning June 29 in Lindau, Germany. As a member of the meeting’s 2025 cohort of Young Scientists, Shieh will represent Sigma Xi’s academic partnership by serving as the Society’s 2025 Lindau Meeting Fellow.
Following an extensive application and review process, Shieh was nominated by a Sigma Xi selection committee and chosen by the meeting’s scientific review panel. She will be part of the meeting’s elite body of student attendees, featuring 634 of the world’s most promising young scientists in Chemistry and related fields, representing 84 countries.
The unique atmosphere of the Lindau Meeting provides students an opportunity to connect with more than 30 Nobel laureates. Additionally, students can contribute to the meeting by submitting their own research for presentation at the Next Gen Science Sessions. This distinctive meeting component allows students to share their research with a preeminent audience, including the Nobel laureates.
"I'm incredibly grateful and deeply honored to have been selected as a Young Scientist for this year's Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Chemistry," said Shieh. “This unique opportunity to engage with and learn from Nobel laureates and fellow Young Scientists from all over the world is sure to be a transformative experience.”
Now in its second year of academic partnership with the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings, Sigma Xi invites students and early-career scientists to apply annually for nomination to the Young Scientist cohorts of future meetings. Applicants should be active members of Sigma Xi, be among the top five percent in their class, and meet additional posted criteria. The application portal is open annually from late summer to early fall at sigmaxi.org/lindau. Questions can be directed to executiveoffice@sigmaxi.org.
"After a highly successful debut in 2024, Sigma Xi looks forward to continuing its partnership with this year’s Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings in Chemistry,” said Sigma Xi Executive Director and CEO, Jamie Vernon. “We are thrilled to provide this opportunity to Ms. Shieh to help advance her research career while representing Sigma Xi as a graduate student member.”
About the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings: Since their foundation in 1951, the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings have evolved into a unique international scientific forum. The annual meetings facilitate exchange between different generations, cultures, and disciplines. The meetings are alternately dedicated to the three Nobel Prize disciplines in the natural sciences: physics, chemistry, or physiology/medicine. An interdisciplinary meeting is held every five years, while the Lindau Meeting of Economic Sciences takes place every three years. More than 35,000 students, PhD candidates and post-docs have taken part as Young Scientists.