Simons Foundation Pivot Fellowship Program 2025 (Funding available) – YOA

Deadline: May 15, 2025

Applications are open for the Simons Foundation Pivot Fellowship Program 2025. The fellowship will assist researchers with a powerful observe report of success and achievement of their present area, and a deep curiosity, curiosity and drive to make a contribution to a brand new self-discipline.

The fellowship will allow immediately’s brightest minds to apply their skills and experience to a brand new area and can consist of 1 coaching 12 months the place the man might be embedded in a lab of a mentor to be taught the brand new self-discipline and its tradition. Mentorship and assist are important for studying a brand new self-discipline and tradition. In addition to the {qualifications} and potential of the applicant, the suitability of the mentor and the setting for mentorship might be strongly thought-about within the application course of.

Funding

• A Pivot Fellowship supplies one 12 months of wage assist of the man’s educational-12 months wage, whether or not usually paid over 9 or 12 months, and a $10,000 analysis, journey {and professional} improvement allowance through the fellowship coaching 12 months.
• Mentors will obtain a $50,000 analysis fund through the fellowship 12 months. The mentor’s analysis funds could also be used for wage assist for the mentor and lab personnel, small and huge gear (together with main analysis instrumentation), provides, journey, publication, tuition and different analysis bills. Indirect prices are restricted to twenty p.c of the modified whole direct prices. Funding for fellowships should be activated inside 18 months of award notification. Please observe that within the occasion of budgetary or different issues The Simons Foundation, Inc. reserves the fitting to refer an application to The Simons Foundation International, Ltd. (SFI) for consideration and funding, by which case SFI’s grant insurance policies would apply.
• At the top of the fellowship 12 months, fellows could also be eligible to apply for a analysis award of their new area for as much as $1.5 million, plus oblique prices, over 5 (5) years.

Eligibility

• Fellows and mentors should maintain a Ph.D., M.D. or equal diploma within the pure sciences (astronomy, biology, chemistry, earth sciences, neuroscience and physics), engineering, arithmetic, knowledge science or pc science — and all subdisciplines therein — and be school at an educational establishment or maintain an equal place.
• Fellows should display that the fellowship will happen in a brand new self-discipline, distinct from their present area of study, inside astronomy, biology, chemistry, earth sciences, neuroscience, physics or arithmetic — and all subdisciplines therein.
• In order to obtain the fellowship, fellows should be accredited by their establishment for a full 12 months of go away.
• Fellows should not maintain another fellowship that can present them with wage assist through the coaching 12 months of the Pivot Fellowship.

Application

The deadline to apply is 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET), May 15, 2025.

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For extra info, go to Simons Foundation Pivot Fellowship.