[8] In July 2006, Lisi was awarded an FQXi grant to conduct research in quantum mechanics and unification.

[10][11] In July 2007, Lisi traveled to the inaugural FQXi conference in Reykjavík, Iceland, to give several academic talks.

[19] After a one-year extension to allow for more data collection from the Large Hadron Collider, Frank Wilczek conceded the superparticle bet to Lisi in 2016.

[13][23] Lisi stated that gravity, the standard model bosons and fermions can be unified as parts of an E8 superconnection.

In a Scientific American post, Lisi stated, "(the 3 generation) … issue remains the most significant problem, and until it is solved the theory is not complete and cannot be considered much more than a speculative proposal.

"[26] In June 2010, Lisi posted "An explicit embedding of gravity and the Standard Model in E8",[27] and in 2015 an update and generalization, "Lie group cosmology",[28] in which he claims to have solved the 3 generations problem.

In 2011 and 2012, Lisi co-hosted Invention USA (with Reichart von Wolfsheild), a two-season, reality TV series on the History channel.