CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars Program 2026-2028 (up to $100,000 CAD) – YOA

Deadline: November 5, 2025

Applications are open for the CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars Program 2026-2028. The CIFAR Global Scholars Program presents early-profession researchers the OPPORTUNITY to develop and lead excessive-threat, excessive-reward interdisciplinary analysis, increase their skilled networks and obtain centered management coaching of their pivotal first years as impartial investigators. These experiences speed up the rise of analysis leaders who’re positioned to drive new discoveries and open new fields of inquiry.

Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) welcomes functions from candidates throughout the pure, biomedical, and social sciences, in addition to the humanities. Successful candidates be part of considered one of CIFAR’s interdisciplinary analysis applications, collaborating with international analysis leaders to advance transformative information and deal with among the most vital questions going through science and humanity.

The CIFAR Global Scholars program develops extremely proficient junior school into influential leaders who discover boundary-pushing new instructions in interdisciplinary analysis. It consists of three core pillars:

• Fostering Novel Interdisciplinary Research
• Developing and Broadening Networks
• Strengthening Leadership Skills

Benefits

• A two-yr alternative to collaborate and obtain mentorship inside an in depth-knit, interdisciplinary community of main international researchers in a CIFAR analysis program. 
• $100,000 CAD in unrestricted analysis help. These versatile funds can be utilized for analysis bills, instructing launch, scholar or postdoc help, convention journey, and extra. They usually are not tied to a selected mission or proposal.
• Opportunities to apply for CIFAR seed funds. These time-restricted funds help excessive-threat, excessive-reward interdisciplinary collaborations with Fellows, Advisors and different Global Scholars.
• Membership within the prolonged group of CIFAR Global Scholars. This community of inventive and like-minded friends throughout cohorts and various disciplines presents invaluable help and additional alternative for collaboration.
• Targeted coaching in important areas of analysis management, together with crew management, trainee mentorship, science communication and science advocacy.

Eligibility

CIFAR welcomes candidates from all international locations and is dedicated to constructing a various, worldwide group of students. 

To be thought of for the CIFAR Global Scholars program, you should:

• Hold a PhD (or equal).
• Hold a full-time place at an establishment of upper schooling or analysis. Your position should embody accountability for main impartial analysis as a principal investigator and supervising or instructing trainees towards their attainment of a level. This place should be safe all through the complete time period from April 1, 2026 to March 31, 2028. Typically, an eligible applicant is a tenure-observe Assistant Professor (within the North American context), or holds an equal place designed to lead to a everlasting school appointment (in tutorial programs exterior of North America).
• Have began your first place, as described above, submit-PhD, no sooner than July 1, 2021 and no later than December 31, 2025. Special consideration could also be given to candidates who’ve taken parental depart or confronted distinctive circumstances.
• Engage in analysis that enhances the themes and targets of a recruiting CIFAR analysis program. See the part beneath on Programs Accepting Applications.
• Be accessible for a digital interview on March 24-26, 2026.
• Hold a sound passport, and if relevant, give you the chance to acquire journey visas to attend CIFAR conferences globally, roughly two to 3 times per yr.
• Be fluent in spoken and written English.

Note: Postdoctoral fellows usually are not eligible to apply.

Application

Applications for the 2026-2028 cohort of CIFAR Global Scholars are open till November 5, 2025 (12 PM Eastern Standard Time).

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For extra info, go to CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars Program.