KAUST Global Postdoctoral Fellowship 2025 (up to $40,000) – YOA

Deadline: January 15, 2026

Applications are open for the KAUST Global Postdoctoral Fellowship 2025. The KAUST Global Fellowship Program goals to appeal to and assist excellent rising analysis leaders and scientists from all over the world to construct their path in the direction of a totally unbiased profession. The program conjures up the younger technology of scientists and engineers to deal with world challenges and discover alternatives that profit humanity.

This advantage-primarily based program targets glorious postdocs who’ve breakthrough concepts that may complement, assist, contribute, and advance the most important analysis priorities of KAUST. In their ‘research-first’ atmosphere, present and future Global Fellows have full entry to key analysis instruments, tools, unparalleled amenities, and experience required to fulfill their analysis ambitions, supported by a powerful group of excellence.

Benefits

• Each profitable fellow receives up to $40,000 of funding for his or her analysis proposal, together with a yearly dwelling stipend of $75,000 plus advantages, together with medical insurance coverage, lodging, education for up to 2 youngsters, relocation allowance, and annual journey allowance. The funding permits researchers to prioritize their analysis on a full-time foundation with monetary safety.
• KAUST supplies easy accessibility to all the required analysis instruments and tools Fellows want to fulfill their analysis targets, with unparalleled laboratory amenities out there on campus. Fellows are additionally supported by their skilled colleagues and might depend on the experience of their host Principal Investigator.
• The KAUST Global Fellowship Program gives quite a lot of studying and growth applications designed to assist and enhance Fellows’ present abilities whereas nurturing and creating new abilities. These applications embody the KAUST Mentoring Program, the Harvard HE Teaching Certificate, and Leadership applications/ certificates. Each Fellow’s studying expertise is enhanced additional via networking alternatives with different Fellows and profitable alumni of the Fellowship program.
• KAUST has an intensive community of worldwide analysis companions that facilitate networking alternatives for the KAUST analysis group to meet a worldwide set of exterior organizations working in academia, trade, authorities businesses, funding our bodies, and different exterior companions. This in depth community of analysis and trade leaders helps Fellows to construct profitable worldwide partnerships for his or her future careers.
• This program gives a very distinctive OPPORTUNITY for early-profession researchers to pursue their very own analysis venture and develop on their progressive concepts. Early profession researchers are offered with the opportunity of constructing their very own future profession path and transition towards a aggressive unbiased analysis profession.

Eligibility

Applicant’s Eligibility

For an applicant to be eligible for this Fellowship:

• Must have been awarded a Ph.D. diploma, inside 4 calendar years (i.e., these making use of in January 2026, should have obtained their Ph.D. after January 2022 inclusive);
• Must count on to full their Ph.D. earlier than the beginning of their Fellowship;
• Must be prepared to transfer to KAUST to undertake their proposed three-12 months analysis venture*;
• Must determine of their application a KAUST school member who has confirmed and agreed to host them and their analysis venture, if profitable.

People of all nationalities are welcome to apply. They encourage feminine purposes to promote a greater gender steadiness in science and engineering.

Proposal Eligibility

To be eligible for this Fellowship, the proposal ought to:

• Focus on a number of of the KAUST analysis priorities: Health & Wellness, Sustainable Environment & Essential Needs, Energy & Industrial Leadership, and Economies of the Future;
• Have a top level view for a 3-12 months length;
• Follow the finances and monetary tips of the decision;
• Use the supplied template.

The KAUST Global Fellowship Program helps analysis initiatives underneath the applications of the three KAUST educational divisions: Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering (BESE), Computer, Electrical, and Mathematical Science and Engineering (CEMSE), and Physical Science and Engineering (PSE).

Application

You should have the next prepared:

• Updated CV with publications (max 4 pages)
• Two publications mixed in a single PDF
• Research proposal and appendices in a single doc (template supplied)
• KAUST Host PI assist letter (template supplied)
• Two referees to submit suggestion letters through the system upon request

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For extra info, go to KAUST Global Postdoctoral Fellowship.