EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026 – YOA

Deadline: July 10, 2026

Applications are open for the EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026. The EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowships assist wonderful postdoctoral researchers all through Europe and the world for a interval of as much as two years. International mobility is a key requirement.

The fellowship features a wage or stipend, a relocation allowance and assist for fellows with kids. Awardees can attend an EMBO Laboratory Leadership course and grow to be part of the worldwide community of EMBO Fellows. EMBO considers a primary creator refereed preprint equal to a primary creator publication as one of many eligibility and evaluation standards for the EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme.

Benefits

• EMBO supplies grants for host establishments in EMBC Member States to problem employment contracts to EMBO Fellows. Fellows working in different international locations than EMBC Member States will obtain a stipend.

Eligibility

• Applicants should maintain a doctorate or equal initially of the fellowship.
• Applicants who already maintain a PhD on the time of application are eligible to apply provided that they obtained it through the two years previous to the date the application is submitted.
• Applicants will need to have at the least one first creator publication (analysis paper) accepted in or printed in a world peer reviewed journal on the time of application. A primary creator preprint (analysis paper) with public in-depth peer evaluations can also be enough for eligibility offered the evaluations had been verifiably obtained from an impartial peer assessment service. Informal feedback, highlights and evaluations posted by people are excluded.
• All purposes should contain motion between international locations (detailed details about mobility necessities is listed within the EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowships guidelines).
• Applications to go to the nation through which the PhD was obtained is not going to be thought-about.
• Applications to return to a laboratory the place the candidate has labored prior to now for greater than six months, both in a single or in a number of visits is not going to be thought-about.
• Applications for an EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowship to be held within the laboratory, institute or division through which the candidate labored to acquire the PhD, or to work once more with the candidate’s supervisor, irrespective of the place the latter is positioned, is not going to be thought-about.
• Candidates who’ve already began working within the host laboratory can apply provided that they’ve been working within the host laboratory for lower than six months on the time the application is submitted.
• Candidates can solely submit one application for one venture at one host laboratory at every spherical of choice.
• Reapplication is permissible solely as soon as.
• Projects which are a direct continuation of the PhD work aren’t eligible.

Application

Applications accepted all year long (subsequent cutoff date – laborious deadline: Friday 10 July 2026, 14:00 CEST)

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For extra info, go to EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowships.