Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution 2026 (up to $265,800) – YOA

Deadline: June 30, 2026

Applications are open for the Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution 2026. The function of those awards is to present assist for college kids coming into U.S.-based Ph.D. packages with a plan to carry out analysis in ecology and evolution.

While they may contemplate all initiatives in ecology and evolution, they’re significantly in interdisciplinary analysis that collectively considers processes on each ecological and evolutionary timescales, or that hyperlinks research of ecology and evolution to different STEM fields, together with physics, pc science, arithmetic, chemistry and different areas of biology, particularly genetics.

Funding

• grant funding can be for a most of three years of economic assist usable over a 5-yr fellowship interval. Awards will whole $265,800, together with oblique prices (restricted to 20 p.c of modified whole direct prices). This covers three years’ price of full-time assist inside a 5-yr interval.

Eligibility

• Applicants should be coming into or making use of for Ph.D. packages in biology or a subfield of the life sciences throughout summer season or fall 2026, with matriculation to begin no later than October 1, 2027. It is permissible for candidates to already maintain a grasp’s diploma, and it’s inspired that they maintain a grasp’s diploma in physics, arithmetic, pc science or engineering.
• Individuals who already maintain a Ph.D. or different terminal diploma in ecology or evolution, or who’ve enrolled in such a Ph.D. program prior to summer season 2026, are usually not eligible.
• Fellowships should be hosted at United States establishments, at a campus inside the United States. In order to maintain the fellowship, the man should preserve enrollment on the host establishment all through the award interval. Individuals could not obtain wage assist from this fellowship concurrently with wage assist from some other supply.
• There are not any citizenship necessities. Fellows are answerable for acquiring and sustaining the suitable visa, if relevant.
• Simons Foundation workers who obtain a W-2 (Wage and Tax Statement) from the Simons Foundation, together with workers of the Flatiron Institute, could not apply as a principal investigator (PI) to any Simons Foundation or Simons Foundation International Requests for Applications (RFAs) launched by the Simons Foundation.

Application

Fellowship purposes should be submitted by the potential fellow. Applicants should submit a letter of intent (LOI) by June 30, 2026, 12:00 p.m. (midday) Eastern time. LOIs should be accomplished electronically and submitted by way of the Simons Award Manager (SAM).

For extra data, go to Simons Graduate Fellowships.