Branco Weiss Fellowship – Society in Science 2027 (up to CHF600,000) – YOA

Deadline: January 15, 2027

Applications are open for the Branco Weiss Fellowship – Society in Science 2027. The Branco Weiss Fellowship – Society in Science is a neighborhood of outstanding younger scientists who share a ardour for taking analysis past the mainstream.

Fellows are given the means to pursue their private imaginative and prescient of a specific scientific undertaking independently – in the absolute best places, wherever in the world. The fellowship is awarded to postdocs for up to 5 years. Since it continues after a promotion, some fellows even turn into school members in the course of the course of their fellowship. Besides a ardour for the analysis itself, what Branco Weiss Fellows and Alumni even have in widespread is a aptitude for speaking past their very own subject of study and with society at giant.

The fellowship program was initiated and financed by the Swiss entrepreneur Dr. Branco Weiss, who handed away in October 2010. It is predicated at ETH Zurich.

Funding

• A Branco Weiss Fellowship quantities to max. CHF 600,000 for up to 5 years. It could also be used to cowl all professional prices of analysis (i.e. wage and/or gear, journey bills, consumables, personnel, and many others.).

Eligibility

You are eligible for the 2027 consumption if:

• You formally maintain a PhD on January 15, 2027. This means that you’ve got at the very least efficiently handed your PhD protection earlier than January 15, 2027.
• You have obtained your PhD a most of 5 years prior to January 15, 2027.
• You don’t maintain/haven’t held a school-equal place (e.g. assistant professor or lecturer).
• Your undertaking departs from the mainstream of analysis in your self-discipline.
• You have a file of excellent scientific achievement.
• You show in the proposal a willingness to have interaction in a dialog on related social, cultural, political or financial points past the frontiers of your specific self-discipline.
• You can verify that you’re keen and ready to journey to the Greater Zurich Area and attend the annual symposium in individual.
• You can guarantee that you’re the one candidate your chosen mentor is supporting throughout this spherical.

If you’ve got utilized earlier than and weren’t chosen, you might be welcome to apply once more.

Only the next causes for delays after attaining your PhD are acceptable:

• parental go away
• incapability to work due to sickness or accident

Application

The registration portal for the 2027 fellowship consumption is now open and can shut on January 15, 2027, 5 p.m. CET. To keep away from server overload, submit your application at the very least 1 to 2 days earlier than the deadline.

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Branco Weiss Fellowship – Society in Science.