TWAS-TÜBİTAK Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme 2025 (Funded)

Deadline: December 16, 2024

Applications are open for the TWAS-TÜBİTAK Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme 2025. The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye (TÜBİTAK) and TWAS have established a fellowship programme for overseas students from growing nations within the South who want to pursue postdoctoral analysis in a discipline of the pure and associated utilized sciences within the departments and laboratories of private and non-private universities of Türkiye and TÜBİTAK Research Centers and Institutes.

The Fellowships are tenable on the departments and laboratories of private and non-private universities in Turkey for a minimal interval of 6 months to a most interval of 36 months.

Eligible fields below the programme are the next:

• Agricultural Sciences
• Structural, Cell. & Molecular Biology
• Biological Systems & Organisms
• Medical & Health Sciences, together with Neurosciences
• Chemical Sciences
• Engineering Sciences
• Astronomy, Space & Earth Science
• Mathematical Sciences
• Physics
• Computing and Information Technology

Cost

• TWAS will probably be chargeable for offering journey assist to Turkey and from Turkey to researchers’ home / residing nation and also will cowl visa associated bills.
• TÜBİTAK will probably be chargeable for a month-to-month allowance to cowl lodging and residing bills and personal medical insurance premiums in Turkey at an quantity to be specified by TÜBİTAK.
• The research charges, together with tuitions, registration and analysis prices, needs to be waived or coated by the host institutes.

Eligibility

• Be everlasting residents and nationals of a growing nation within the South.
• Candidates from Science and Technology Lagging nations (STLC) and ladies are particularly inspired to apply. NB. Developing nations that aren’t within the listing are additionally eligible to apply.
• Must not maintain any visa for non permanent or everlasting residency in Turkey or any developed nation;
• Be employed in a growing nation (aside from the host nation) and maintain a analysis task there. Applicants should present a Supporting Statement from the top/director of the applicant’s present employer based on the format of TÜBİTAK. The supporting assertion is to assist the candidate’s utility and show that s/he will probably be given go away if awarded.
• Hold a PhD diploma in pure and associated utilized sciences (in one of many fields specified above);
• Be a most age of 45 years on 31 December of the appliance 12 months;
• Provide an official Acceptance Letter from an eligible division, establishment or laboratory of a public or non-public college in Turkey, or TÜBİTAK Research Centers and Institutes.
• NB. Requests for acceptance have to be directed to the chosen host establishment(s) in Turkey, and NOT to TÜBİTAK. Without preliminary acceptance, the appliance is not going to be thought of for choice. The acceptance letter have to be signed by the very best authority of the chosen host institute. The most variety of tutorial advisors in Turkey could be 2 (two).
• Candidates who obtained their PhD from a college in Turkey are required to obtain an acceptance letter from a college aside from the one the place they obtained their doctorate diploma and perform their analysis with an instructional advisor(s) aside from their doctoral thesis advisor.
• Provide the Research proposal type ready within the format decided by TÜBİTAK;
• Provide proof of proficiency in English. If medium of schooling was not English: present proof in English, e.g. standardized check card (TOEFL or IELTS) or a University-issued letter certifying the information of the language. If medium of schooling was English, please write a short assertion indicating what kind of schooling was in English, e.g. highschool, BSc or MSc levels, this assertion have to be signed and dated by the applicant;
• Not take up different assignments throughout the interval of her/his fellowship;
• Be financially chargeable for any accompanying relations;
• Not have beforehand obtained or been awarded a fellowship below this programme;
• Must return to her/his home nation on completion of the fellowship.

Application

ALL functions to the Fellowship have to be submitted on-line solely through the TÜBİTAK on-line utility system.

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