Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship 2025 for Postdocs and Experienced Researchers – YOA

Deadline: Ongoing

Applications are open for the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship 2025 for Postdocs and Experienced Researchers. Through the Humboldt Research Fellowship, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation sponsors researchers with above-common {qualifications} from throughout the globe. As a fellow, you’ll profit from particular person help from the Humboldt Foundation and their various sponsorship portfolio.

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation goals to realize a superb steadiness between genders and a excessive stage of range amongst its fellows in all areas. They subsequently expressly invite feminine scientists and members of underrepresented teams to apply. They welcome all functions, no matter ethnic, cultural or social background, gender identification, age, faith, worldview, incapacity or sexual orientation.

Benefits

• Postdocs: Benefit from analysis sponsorship in Germany in the beginning of your tutorial profession. The Humboldt Research Fellowship for postdocs allows you to conduct analysis in Germany. The month-to-month fellowship quantity is €2,700 plus addtional advantages. Fellowships could final from 6 to 24 months and may be divided into as much as three stays inside three years.
• Experienced researchers: You can nonetheless apply for analysis sponsorship in Germany even in case you are already effectively superior in your tutorial profession. The Humboldt Research Fellowship for skilled researchers allows you to conduct analysis in Germany. The fellowship quantity is €3,200 plus extra advantages. Fellowships could final from 6 to 18 months and may be divided into as much as three stays inside three years.
• General circumstances: In addition to the fellowship quantity plus extra advantages, additionally, you will obtain private help all through your sponsorship. You are versatile in figuring out if you want to begin your fellowship. Prior to your analysis fellowship, you and your associate will have the ability to attend an intensive language course.
• Further monetary help, together with household advantages for youngsters and companions, subsidies for non-public full medical insurance and allowances for journey bills, can be accessible.
• Alumni programmes: They keep involved even after your analysis keep has come to an finish. Their alumni sponsorship measures flexibly help each Humboldtian’s particular person journey via life, in each their careers and their future analysis collaborations. A return fellowship or later visits to Germany are additionally doable.

Eligibility

• Applicant should not be a German nationwide. If you’re a German nationwide, or for those who obtained your college entrance qualification and college diploma, or your college diploma and your doctorate, in Germany, you’ll be able to apply if in case you have lived and labored overseas for greater than ten years and intend to proceed doing so lengthy-time period. Have you lived and labored overseas for greater than 5 years? You can nonetheless apply if there’s a sturdy connection to your present nation of residence (everlasting employment, extra citizenship and so forth.
• For your application to achieve success, you might not have lived in Germany for longer than a complete of six months inside the 18-month interval previous to submitting your application.
• If you could have arrived in Germany lately it is best to submit your application as quickly as doable, as they will solely assess your eligibility and formally settle for your application after it has been submitted.
• You can present two skilled opinions. 
  • Postdocs: Your doctoral supervisor and one different researcher – outdoors of your institute, if doable – ought to present effectively-grounded info in your {qualifications}. 
  • Experienced researchers: The opinions ought to be offered by essential collaborative companions and/or researchers at your individual institute in addition to different institutes – outdoors your nation of origin, if doable.
• Language Skills
  • Natural sciences and engineering: You will need to have a superb data of German or English. 
  • Humanities, social sciences and medication: You will need to have a superb data of German if that is vital for conducting your analysis efficiently. Otherwise, good data of English will suffice.

Application

You could solely submit your application upon getting uploaded the next paperwork within the application kind:

• curriculum vitae (two pages max)
• analysis define ( 5 pages max)
• full checklist of your publications (cf. sample list, PDF)
• checklist of chosen key publications (cf. sample list, PDF)
• key publications
• doctoral certificates or proof that your doctorate has been accomplished efficiently, or affirmation that this would be the case inside the subsequent six months
• German language certificates, if required
• if required: writer’s acceptance notifications and/or acknowledgement of receipt and summaries/translations of key publications that aren’t accessible in German or in English
• In addition: host’s assertion and affirmation that analysis amenities can be found, in addition to two skilled opinions. Please notice that these paperwork can solely be uploaded in a protected space by the host(s) and skilled reviewers personally. You can solely submit your application as soon as these paperwork have been uploaded. Further info and explanations may be discovered on the application kind.

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For extra info, go to Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship.