African Academy of Sciences (AAS) Fellowship 2026 – YOA

Deadline: September 9, 2026

Applications are open for the African Academy of Sciences (AAS) Fellowship 2026. The African Academy of Sciences (AAS) acknowledges scientific excellence by electing to its membership excellent students who’ve attained the best stage of excellence of their scientific subject and have made important contributions to the development of science regionally and globally.

AAS Fellows are elected for all times by a rigorous peer overview course of on the premise of excellence of their publications report, improvements, management roles and contribution to coverage and society.

There isn’t any age restrict and AAS encourages nomination of feminine scientists and deserving students from under- represented disciplines. Candidates could also be nominated from all scientific disciplines grouped into ten AAS scientific clusters:

• Agricultural & Nutritional Sciences.
• Biosciences.
• Chemical Sciences.
• Cultural Humanities & Social Sciences.
• Engineering, Technology & Applied Sciences.
• Mathematical Sciences.
• Geological, Environmental, Earth & Space Sciences.
• Medical & Health Sciences.
• Physical Sciences.
• Policy Sciences.

Eligibility

• Have obtained a PhD or equal {qualifications} a minimum of 10 years earlier than the yr of nomination
• Have an H-index of 20 and above in both of (Scopus, Google Scholar, Web of science and ResearchGate) and never essentially all. However, that is NOT relevant to social scientists.
• Have a minimum of one journal article with 100 or extra citations.
• Be a primary creator, senior or corresponding creator or final creator in a minimum of 50% of the ten submitted articles.
• Candidates for Associate Fellows who’re members of an Academy of their home nation or area could have an added benefit.

Candidates for Associate Fellowship should:

• Demonstrate contributions that they’ve made to Africa. For instance, they will reveal supervision of a number of African masters and doctoral college students and revealed papers primarily based on analysis in Africa with a considerable quantity of the African analysis papers having African first authors. Special consideration shall be made to the affiliate fellows who’re Social Scientists relating to publishing of papers. (See Annex 1)
• Be at present energetic and if not, clearly state on the shape, what contribution they’d make to the development of science and/or scholarship in Africa.
• Demonstrate excellent scientific management and citizenship and, if relevant, contribution to coverage.
• Demonstrate proof of recognition by their friends within the subject resembling energetic peer overview of journal articles, membership of scientific advisory committees, invited lectures, awards, prizes, membership in different academies or skilled our bodies. Peer overview for Social Scientists won’t be restricted to journal articles.

Application

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For extra data, go to AAS Fellowship.