Cornell Atkinson Postdoctoral Fellowship in Sustainability 2027 (Funded) – YOA

Deadline: October 20, 2026

Applications are open for the Cornell Atkinson Postdoctoral Fellowship in Sustainability 2027. The Cornell Atkinson Postdoctoral Fellowship in Sustainability provides a singular OPPORTUNITY for early profession students to have interaction on the nexus of extremely rigorous tutorial analysis and actual affect in sustainability.

Fellows work with each a Cornell school mentor and a partnering exterior group, which inspires Fellows to drive actual-world affect by way of their analysis. Through the Sustainability Leadership Program, Fellows be a part of a cohort of early-profession students that receives curated help in science communication, strategic profession planning, and collaborative management.

Created by way of the beneficiant help of David and Patricia Atkinson, the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability allows transdisciplinary and translational analysis that advances a extra sustainable, wholesome, and resilient future. By supporting analysis throughout all of Cornell’s faculties and colleges, and partnering with governmental, non-governmental, and personal entities, Cornell Atkinson immediately helps the novel collaboration mandatory to remodel information to motion.

Benefits

• Fellowships present a wage of $65,000 per yr, full Cornell University worker advantages, and $12,000 per yr for research- and journey-associated bills. Allowable analysis bills are ruled by Cornell University insurance policies relevant to all tutorial employees.

Eligibility

• The postdoctoral program is now not open to Cornell Ph.D. graduates or present Cornell postdocs, as its objective is to carry excellent students from outdoors Cornell to complement the college’s tutorial group.
• Postdocs should keep major residency in Ithaca in the course of the appointment. Hybrid and distant appointments for Cornell Atkinson postdocs should not permitted.
• Applicants will need to have acquired their Ph.D. in a subject related to the proposed analysis by the beginning of the fellowship, however no sooner than two years previous to the beginning date (for this application cycle, no sooner than May 1, 2025).
• All candidates assembly the necessities are inspired to apply. Successful candidates requiring visa sponsorship shall be referred to Cornell International Services for steerage on acquiring the suitable visa to enter and be employed in the United States.
• Cornell Atkinson Postdoctoral Fellows are full-time, non-school, advantages-eligible employees at Cornell University. Policies that govern employment at Cornell University apply. Accordingly, whereas subject analysis, together with non-US subject analysis, is a standard part of many Fellows’ analysis plans, the Cornell Atkinson Postdoctoral Fellowship is US-based mostly for employment functions.

Application

Submit your application earlier than 5 p.m. ET on October 20, 2026. Late or incomplete functions is not going to be reviewed.

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For extra data, go to Cornell Atkinson Postdoctoral Fellowship.