Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University Postdoctoral Fellowship 2026 (salary of $83,000) – YOA

Deadline: January 11, 2026

Applications are open for the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University Postdoctoral Fellowship 2026. The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University invites early profession scientists to apply for a singular OPPORTUNITY to begin a analysis profession as impartial postdoctoral fellow whereas gaining coaching and connections throughout the framework of a high-tier educational setting.

The Katharine H. Putnam Fellowship in Plant Science helps scientists targeted on using the Arnold Arboretum’s dwelling collections of woody vegetation to study any space of plant science. The Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship helps researchers that sort out any space of world change science using the myriad assets of the Arnold Arboretum.

The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University and its city panorama in Boston are notably nicely-fitted to world change and plant science analysis. It is each an outside museum of the world’s temperate bushes and different woody vegetation grown in a public open area, all close by of the Arboretum’s state-of-the artwork analysis amenities.

Benefits

• An Arboretum Postdoctoral Fellowship features a wage of $83,000 per 12 months, medical health insurance eligibility, and annual help of as much as $10,000 for skilled bills together with analysis, journey, relocation to Boston (and as much as $2,500 of complete funds).
• Fellows are anticipated to be in full-time residence on the Arboretum throughout their 2-12 months tenure and are supplied workplace and analysis area. Fellows can begin between July 1 and the start of September.

Eligibility

• Applications are sought from early-profession people with a PhD in life sciences, plant biology, evolution, plant genetics, plant ecology, horticulture, or associated self-discipline.
• Applicants should have their PhD after they provoke their time period on the Arboretum.
• They strongly encourage functions from teams beneath-represented within the sciences.
• Foreign nationals are eligible to apply, however candidates are anticipated to be fluent in English.

Selection Criteria

The choice of Fellows shall be based mostly on:

• The vary and depth of the applicant’s schooling {and professional} expertise and their potential future contribution to scholarship.
• The monitor document of the candidate as an impartial researcher. The proposed undertaking ought to characterize an impartial line of inquiry, extending past the PhD analysis of the applicant.
• The general high quality of the applicant’s analysis proposal and the relevance of the proposed analysis with respect to how the assets of the Arnold Arboretum can be utilized to deal with the analysis query and the potential influence of the proposed analysis.
• The nature and scope of the work, the method and strategies to be employed, the feasibility of the proposed effort with respect to the time period of the fellowship, how it will advance world change science or plant science, and the way the undertaking suits with ongoing Arboretum tasks.

Application

There is one application for each fellowships. Applicants can apply for each fellowships on the similar time or particularly for the fellowship that’s the most applicable for the proposed work. The analysis assertion must be tailor-made for the precise fellowship that the applicant is making use of for with both a worldwide change focus or utilization of the Arboretum’s dwelling assortment of vegetation. Fellowships are awarded by a aggressive assessment course of. To be thought of for a fellowship, the net functions ought to embrace the next:

• Cover letter. The cowl letter ought to clearly state (i) the applicant’s curiosity in this system; (ii) the potential begin-date; and (iii) the applicant’s contact data
• Abstract. Brief description of proposed analysis (restrict of 175 phrases)
• Research Statement. The assertion must be not than 4 pages, single-spaced, and may describe the analysis undertaking the applicant proposes to conduct as both a Global Change Fellow or a Putnam Fellow. The assertion ought to describe (i) the character and scope of the proposed analysis undertaking; (ii) the method and strategies to be employed; (iii) how the dwelling collections (Putnam Fellowship) or the assets of the Arnold Arboretum (Global Change Fellowship) shall be utilized; and (iv) how the proposed work will advance information of the plant kingdom (Putnam Fellowship) or advance world change science (Global Change Fellowship). References must be included however don’t rely as part of the 4-web page restrict.
• Research Budget. A modest stage of funding is obtainable for analysis and journey prices. Applicants ought to submit a easy, 1-web page funds that features a paragraph detailing all laboratory and gear necessities and an itemized funds by 12 months for analysis, journey, {and professional} prices related to the proposed undertaking. Travel bills for skilled conferences in addition to as much as $2,500 for relocation to Boston must be included within the funds. The funds ought to precisely replicate and justify what’s required for the proposed undertaking.
• Curriculum vitae.
• Three letters of suggestion. As part of the net submission, you could ship a request to the referee to submit a letter of suggestion (through the request part). The referee shall be routinely despatched an electronic mail with a hyperlink to a web-based submission type the place they may add a letter of suggestion. It is very really useful that you simply contact your referee previous to sending the request. Please inform the referee to count on an electronic mail from [email protected] with directions for submitting a suggestion letter. Each referee should add his/her letter of suggestion through the hyperlink by January 18 at 5:00 p.m.

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