AWMF Welcomes Carl O. Pabo as 2025 Scholar

JAFFREY, NH – The Andrew W. Marshall Foundation (AWMF) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Carl O. Pabo, noted scientist and strategic analyst, as the 2025 Andrew W. Marshall Scholar.

The Andrew W. Marshall Scholar experiment provides resources and guidance to conduct a year-long study. Scholars are original, critical thinkers who bring new frameworks to their thinking about strategic questions or employ traditional frameworks in novel ways. They work across disciplines to explore the future and are passionate about shaping the future of U.S. national security.

Dr. Pabo embarked on a remarkable intellectual voyage 25 years ago, leaving the safe harbor of a tenured MIT faculty position and successful career in biophysics to examine the dangerous mismatch between the complexity of modern global challenges and limits of human cognitive capacity. Dr. Pabo’s AWM scholarship will explore how understanding thought’s physical basis can help us use thought more wisely when working to address key strategic questions now facing the United States.  

Previously, Dr. Pabo served as a Professor of Biophysics at MIT and Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, with earlier appointments at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard and B.S. from Yale (summa cum laude). Dr. Pabo is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences.