If at least a few people show some interest in it; and if the option doesn't disturb those who don't want to use it, sure.
But I don't think you can define a reasonable assignment algorithm.
How does it know how many scientists to put on how many next projects?
Let's say all 200 scientists just finished their work and there are 5 projects in the queue... should they all go to the first project, or to first two, or all five? And should they be split equally, or should the first project get more scientists, or something else?
IMO, the feature would just get people angry because it's not doing what they want.