Qualifications to become an ISEF Grand Awards Judge:
A Grand Award Judge must have one of the
following qualifications:
- Have a minimum of six years
related professional experience beyond receiving their B.A., B.S., or
Master’s degree, OR
- Have a Ph.D., M.D., or
equivalent (D.O., Ed.D., D.D.S., D.V.M., etc.), OR
- Be a current graduate student
with more than four years of doctoral-level research experience or who is
within one year of doctoral dissertation defense.
Judges may include university faculty and
scientists, industrial engineers and scientists, representatives of private and
federal research centers and agencies, medical researchers, post-doctoral
fellows, and senior graduate students. Affiliated science fair directors are
NOT eligible to serve as Regeneron ISEF judges.