Funding Opportunities

Opportunities For Future Consideration

Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships

• Description: Support future leaders in mathematics and statistics by facilitating their participation in postdoctoral research environments that will have maximal impact on their future scientific development.
• Type: Fellowship
• Disciplines: Mathematics and statistics, including applications to other disciplines
• Requirements: U.S. citizens or permanent residents
• Education: Earned doctorate
• Deadline: October 20, 2021

Sustainability Innovation Leaders

• Description: Stimulate original cross-disciplinary research and the development of sustainable solutions by developing and deepening connections with external partners.
• Type: Fellowship
• Disciplines: STEM
• Requirements:
• Education: Earned doctorate
• Deadline: October 18, 2021

USA to Australia Fellowship Program

• Description: Fellowships are available for Americans who will benefit from doing research or study in the fields of biophotonics, engineering, environmental and marine sciences, mathematics, medicine, sciences, sustainability, and technology.
• Type: Fellowship
• Disciplines: STEM
• Requirements:
• Education: Earned doctorate or current graduate students
• Deadline: October 15, 2021

Life Sciences Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowships

• Description: Identifies exceptional postdoctoral researchers engaged in high-quality, creative science in all areas of basic life science.
• Type: Fellowship
• Disciplines: Biological sciences
• Requirements: U.S. non-U.S. citizens
• Education: Earned doctorate
• Deadline: October 1, 2021

Anne McLaren Fellowships

• Description: Targeted at exceptional female scientists and engineers who are typically under-represented in these subjects, and wish to establish a research career in the UK.
• Type: Fellowship
• Disciplines: STEM
• Requirements: Female
• Education:
• Deadline: October 8, 2021

Harvard Radcliffe Fellow – Science, engineering, and mathematics

• Description: Fellowship at Radcliffe is an opportunity to step away from usual routines and dive deeply into a project.
• Type: Fellowship
• Disciplines: Science, engineering, and mathematics
• Requirements: U.S. & non-U.S. citizens
• Education: Earned doctorate
• Deadline: September 30, 2021

TRIUMPH Postdoctoral Training Program

• Description: Provides fundamental, interdisciplinary, and innovative training in cancer research at MD Anderson, University of Texas.
• Type: Fellowship
• Disciplines: Cancer research
• Requirements: U.S. & non-U.S. citizens
• Education: Earned doctorate
• Deadline: September 30, 2021

J&J’s WiSTEM²D Scholars Award

• Description: The awards will fund one woman per STEM²D discipline who has completed her advanced degree, who is working as an assistant professor (or global equivalent faculty position), and who is not yet tenured at an accredited university, institution, or design school.
• Type: Award
• Disciplines: STEM
• Requirements: Female
• Education: Earned doctorate
• Deadline: September 27, 2021

Preparing Future Faculty – Faculty Diversity Postdoctoral Program

• Description: Designed to promote and develop scholars for tenure-track faculty positions at the University of Missouri or elsewhere, in any discipline.
• Type: Fellowship
• Disciplines: Any
• Requirements:
• Education: Earned doctorate
• Deadline: September 27, 2021

Fulbright Schuman Innovation Grants

• Description: The grants will give preference to proposals focused on EU or U.S.-EU approaches to the issues of data privacy and protection. Successful proposals should address the technological and policy aspects of data privacy and protection.
• Type: Grant
• Disciplines: Policy & technology
• Requirements:
• Education: Ph.D. (or other terminal degree) not required
• Deadline: September 15, 2021

Fulbright Global Scholar Award

• Description: The Fulbright Global Scholar Award allows U.S. academics and professionals to engage in multi-country, trans-regional projects.
• Type: Award
• Disciplines: Various
• Requirements:
• Education: Earned doctorate or current graduate students
• Deadline: September 15, 2021

Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholarship (various awards)

• Description: Opportunity to conduct research and receive professional training abroad.
• Type: Scholarship
• Disciplines: Various disciplines
• Requirements: Institutional affiliation in the U.S. is not required.
• Education: Earned doctorate
• Deadline: September 15, 2021

Harvard Radcliffe Fellow – Humanities and Social Sciences

• Description: Fellowship at Radcliffe is an opportunity to step away from usual routines and dive deeply into a project.
• Type: Fellowship
• Disciplines: Humanities & social sciences
• Requirements: U.S. & non-U.S. citizens
• Education: Earned doctorate
• Deadline: September 9, 2021

Kluge Fellowships

• Description: Makes use of the Library’s large and varied collections. Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural research is particularly welcome in the Kluge Fellowship program.
• Type: Fellowship
• Disciplines: Humanities, social sciences, or in a professional field such as architecture or law
• Requirements: U.S. & non-U.S. citizens
• Education: Terminal advanced degree
• Deadline: July 15, 2021

Library of Congress Article One Fellowship

• Description: Apply for a post-doctoral fellowship to support research on key topics, including the separation of powers, the role of constituent voice in policymaking, diversity and representation in the legislative branch, and institutional reforms to increase congressional capacity.
• Type: Fellowship
• Disciplines: Humanities, social sciences, or in a professional field such as law
• Requirements: U.S. & non-U.S. citizens
• Education: Terminal advanced degree
• Deadline: July 15, 2021

Library of Congress Fellowship in Congressional Policymaking

• Description: Post-doctoral fellowship in the field of congressional policymaking, with a special focus on legislative negotiations.
• Type: Fellowship
• Disciplines: Humanities, social sciences, or in a professional field such as law
• Requirements: U.S. & non-U.S. citizens
• Education: Terminal advanced degree
• Deadline: To be announced

Jon B. Lovelace Fellowship for the Study of the Alan Lomax Collection

• Description: Supports scholarly research that contributes significantly to a greater understanding of the work of Alan Lomax and the cultural traditions he documented over the course of a vigorous and highly productive 70-year career.
• Type: Fellowship
• Disciplines: Anthropology, ethnomusicology, ethnography, ethno-history, dance, folklore and folklife, history, literature, linguistics, and movement analysis, with particular emphasis on the traditional music, dance, and narrative of the United States, England, Scotland, Ireland, Italy, Spain, and the Caribbean, as well as methodologies for their documentation and analysis.
• Requirements: U.S. & non-U.S. citizens
• Education: Earned doctorate
• Deadline: July 15, 2021

David B. Larson Fellowship in Health and Spirituality

• Description: Encourages the pursuit of scholarly excellence in the scientific study of the relation of religiousness and spirituality to physical, mental, and social health.
• Type: Fellowship
• Disciplines: Health and spirituality
• Requirements: U.S. citizens or permanent residents
• Education: Earned doctorate
• Deadline: July 15, 2021

Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) Fellowship

• Description: Brings together world-leading researchers from all disciplines to work with Durham colleagues in developing collaborative projects of major intellectual, scientific, political, and practical significance.
• Type: Fellowship
• Disciplines: Any
• Requirements: U.S. & non-U.S. citizens
• Education: At least five years’ experience following the completion of a PhD
• Deadline: June 25, 2021

ARL Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowships Program

• Description: Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowships will provide the opportunity for recipients to pursue independent research of their own choosing that supports the mission of the Army Research Laboratory.
• Type: Fellowship
• Disciplines: STEM
• Requirements:
• Education: Earned doctorate
• Deadline: June 15, 2021

Baxter Young Investigator Awards

• Description: Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowships will provide the opportunity for recipients to pursue independent research of their own choosing that supports the mission of the Army Research Laboratory.
• Type: Award
• Disciplines: STEM
• Requirements:
• Education: Earned doctorate or current graduate students in North, Central, or South America at the time of submission
• Deadline: June 15, 2021

Hodder Fellowship

• Description: Writers and non-literary artists of exceptional promise who wish to pursue independent projects at Princeton University during the academic year.
• Type: Fellowship
• Disciplines: Composers, choreographers, performance artists, visual artists, translators, writers, or other kinds of artists or humanists who are selected more “for promise than for performance.
• Requirements:
• Education:
• Deadline: June 14, 2021

Lecturer and Princeton Arts Fellow

• Description: Awarded to artists whose achievements have been recognized as demonstrating extraordinary promise in any area of artistic practice and teaching.
• Type: Fellowship
• Disciplines: Composers, conductors, musicians, choreographers, visual artists, filmmakers, poets, novelists, playwrights, designers, directors, and performance artists.
• Requirements: Holders of Ph.D. degrees from Princeton are not eligible to apply.
• Education: Earned doctorate
• Deadline: June 14, 2021

Human Frontier Science (HFSP) Program Postdoctoral Fellowship

• Description: Supports proposals for frontier, potentially transformative research in the life sciences. Applications for high-risk projects are particularly encouraged.
• Type: Fellowship
• Disciplines: STEM
• Requirements:
• Education: Earned doctorate or current graduate students in North, Central, or South America at the time of submission
• Deadline: May 22, 2021

Newton International Fellowships

• Description: The Newton International Fellowship selects the very best early-stage post-doctoral researchers to work at one of three participating academies (the Royal Society, the British Academy, and the Academy of Medical Sciences).
• Type: Fellowship
• Disciplines: STEM
• Requirements: Citizens other than British citizens
• Education: Earned doctorate
• Deadline: April 7, 2021

Freigeist Fellowships

• Description: Junior researchers are given the opportunity to enjoy maximum freedom in their early scientific careers. The ‘Freigeist’ scheme is deliberately left open to all disciplines and topics.
• Type: Fellowship
• Disciplines: Various
• Requirements:
• Education: Earned doctorate or current graduate students
• Deadline: April 1, 2021

Gulf Research Program Science Policy Fellowship

• Description: Helps scientists hone their skills by putting them to practice for the benefit of Gulf Coast communities and ecosystems.
• Type: Fellowship
• Disciplines: Sciences
• Requirements: 
• Education: Earned doctorate or current graduate students
• Deadline: March 3, 2021

JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowships for Research in Japan

• Description: Provides opportunities for young pre- and post-doctoral researchers from North America and Europe to receive an orientation on Japanese culture and research systems and to pursue research under the guidance of host researchers at a Japanese university or research institute over a period of two months during the summer.
• Type: Fellowship
• Disciplines: Any
• Requirements: Citizen of the UK, France, Germany, Canada, Sweden, and the US
• Education: Earned doctorate or current graduate students
• Deadline: No open call for US participants in 2021

If you find any broken links, expired programs, or any new programs to list here, please email Valli Sarveswaran at v.sarveswaran@missouri.edu.