Funding Opportunities

Opportunities For Future Consideration

Virginia Tech launches Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

• Description: Prepare postdocs from various fields and disciplines for the next step in their careers, providing a two-year appointment with nationally competitive salaries and benefits, $10,000 for training- and professional development-related expenses to be used over the two-year fellowship, in addition to mentoring and professional development support.
• Type: Fellowship
• Disciplines: Varies
• Requirements:
• Education: Earned doctorate.
• Deadline: Mar 1, Oct 1, Nov 15

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 1, 2023

Intelligence Community (IC) Postdoctoral Research Programs

• Description: Offers scientists and engineers from a wide variety of disciplines unique opportunities to conduct research in a wide range of topics relevant to the Intelligence Community.
• Type: Fellowship
• Disciplines: STEM
• Requirements: U.S. citizens
• Education: Earned doctorate
• Deadline: February 28, 2023

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: Jan 31, 2023

L’Oréal USA For Women in Science Fellowship Program

• Description: Awards five women postdoctoral scientists annually with grants of $60,000 each.
• Type: Fellowship
• Disciplines: Sciences
• Requirements: U.S. citizens or permanent residents who are women
• Education: Earned doctorate
• Deadline: January 27, 2023

Underrepresented Minority Postdoctoral Enrichment Program

• Description: Provides a total of $60,000 over three years to support career development activities.
• Type: Award
• Disciplines: Biomedical or medical research
• Requirements: Underrepresented minority postdoctoral fellows in a degree-granting institution in the United States or Canada
• Education: Earned doctorate
• Deadline: January 18, 2023

KAUST Global Fellowship

• Description:  Supports outstanding emerging research leaders and scientists from around the world to build their path towards a fully independent career.
• Type: Fellowship
• Disciplines: Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering, Computer, Electrical, and Mathematical Science and Engineering, and Physical Science and Engineering.
• Requirements:
• Education: Earned doctorate before the start of the fellowship.
• Deadline: January 15, 2023

NOAA Climate & Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowships

• Description: Helps create and train the next generation of leading researchers needed for climate studies.
• Type: Fellowship
• Disciplines: Sciences relevant to the NOAA Climate and Global Change Program
• Requirements:
• Education: Earned doctorate
• Deadline: January 4, 2023

Ford Foundation Fellowship Program

• Description: Ford Foundation seeks to increase the diversity of the nation’s college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, maximizing the educational benefits of diversity, and increasing the number of professors…
• Type: Fellowship
• Disciplines: STEM
• Requirements: U.S. Person
• Education: Earned doctorate or current graduate students
• Deadline: December 15, 2022

Stanton Nuclear Security Fellowship

• Description: Offers younger scholars studying nuclear security issues the opportunity to spend twelve months at CFR’s offices in New York or Washington, DC, conducting policy-relevant research.
• Type: Fellowship
• Disciplines: Appropriate potential topics include nuclear terrorism, nuclear proliferation, nuclear weapons, and nuclear force posture
• Requirements: U.S. Citizens
• Education: Earned doctorate including a JD
• Deadline: December 15, 2022

CAORC Multi-Country Research Fellowship

• Description: This fellowship enables US scholars to carry out trans-regional and comparative research in countries across the network of Overseas Research Centers (ORCs), as well as other countries.
• Type: Fellowship
• Disciplines: Humanities, social sciences, and allied natural sciences
• Requirements: U.S. citizens
• Education: Earned doctorate or doctoral students who are ‘all but dissertation.
• Deadline: December 8, 2022

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: December 9, 2022

Misophonia Research Fund

• Description: Focuses on advancing scientific breakthroughs and ending suffering from misophonia.
• Disciplines: Accepting applications for research projects that seek to better understand misophonia, characterize symptomatology and associated impairments, and assess interventional strategies to treat those with the disorder.
• Requirements:
• Education: All proposed research projects must be led by a Principal Investigator (PI) who holds a doctorate (e.g., Ph.D., M.D., Psy.D., Au.D.) or related research doctoral degree.
• Deadline: December 9, 2022

Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program

• Description: Recruits and retain individuals from gender, racial, ethnic, and other groups underrepresented in the life sciences, including those individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds.
• Type: Fellowship
• Disciplines: Biomedical and life science disciplines, including plant biology, evolutionary biology, biophysics, chemical biology, biomedical engineering, and computational biology.
• Requirements: Those who are graduating or have graduated from research institutions in the U.S. (including Puerto Rico).
• Education: Earned doctorate
• Deadline: December 7, 2022

International Fellowship Program

• Description: Provides support for women pursuing full-time graduate or postdoctoral studies.
• Type: Fellowship
• Disciplines:
• Requirements: International women in the United States who are not U.S. citizens or permanent residents, and who intend to return to their home country to pursue a professional career.
• Education: Earned doctorate or graduate students
• Deadline: November 15, 2022

Future Faculty in the Physical Sciences (FFPS) Fellowship

• Description: Seeks a diverse cohort of early career scientists who will conduct research in physics, broadly defined to include the subdisciplines of astrophysics, biophysics, and geophysics and planetary physics, independently or in collaboration with Princeton faculty, postdoctoral researchers, and students.
• Type: Fellowship
• Disciplines: Astrophysics, biophysics, geophysics, and planetary physics
• Requirements:
• Education: Earned doctorate
• Deadline: November 15, 2022

AIHS Humane Studies Fellowship

• Description: Provides up to $15,000 to graduate students and postdocs to buy out teaching responsibilities for a semester..
• Type: Fellowships
• Disciplines: Economics, political science, philosophy, law, history, sociology, and similar disciplines in the social sciences and humanities.
• Requirements: International scholars are eligible; however, preference is given to applicants who live or study in North America or the United Kingdom.
• Education: Must be enrolled in an MA or PhD program or be undertaking a post-doctoral fellowship.
• Deadline: Since funds are limited, we suggest applying for fall sabbaticals by July 15 and spring sabbaticals by November 15. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Fellowship

• Description: Offered to individuals who design and develop proposals to conduct independent research in fields pursued by and of interest to the Institution.
• Type: Fellowship
• Disciplines: Fields involving comparative genomic approaches such as phylogenomics, population genomics, metagenomics or transcriptomics, and have a component that involves significant bioinformatics analysis.
• Requirements: U.S. non-U.S. citizens
• Education: Earned doctorate or current graduate students
• Deadline: November 1, 2022

American Fellowship Program

• Description: Support women scholars who are pursuing full-time study to complete dissertations, conducting postdoctoral research full time, or preparing research for publication for eight consecutive weeks.
• Type: Fellowships
• Disciplines:
• Requirements: U.S. citizens or permanent residents who are women
• Education: Earned doctorate or doctoral students
• Deadline: November 1, 2022

BAEF Study and Research Fellowships in Belgium

• Description: Participants will learn how to imagine possible futures and leverage their skills and humanities training towards careers in the private sector, the nonprofit world, arts administration, public media, and many other fields.
• Type: Fellowship
• Disciplines:
• Requirements: U.S. citizens or permanent residents
• Education: Earned doctorate or current graduate students
• Deadline: October 31, 2022

Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

• Description: Awards Postdoctoral Fellowships to highly qualified investigators within 3 years of obtaining their PhD to carry out an integrated program of independent research and education. The research and education plans of each fellowship must address scientific questions within the scope of EAR disciplines.
• Type: Fellowships
• Disciplines: Areas supported by the Division of Earth Sciences disciplinary programs at NSF
• Requirements: U.S. citizens or permanent residents
• Education: Earned doctorate
• Deadline: October 26, 2022

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 19, 2022

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 17, 2022

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, 2022

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, 2022

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: Various dates in September

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, 2022

Society of Fellows – University of Michigan

• Description:  The Society draws together fellows from across all scholarly and artistic fields to stimulate cross-disciplinary awareness and exchange.
• Type: Fellowship
• Disciplines: Natural and Physical Sciences, Social Sciences, and Arts and Humanities
• Requirements:
• Education: Earned doctorate
• Deadline: September 15, 2022

Yale School of Medicine (YSM) Science Fellows Program

• Description:  Enhances discovery and creativity by increasing diversity through the recruitment, support, retention, and promotion of scientists committed to inclusive excellence.
• Type: Fellowship
• Disciplines: Basic, translational or clinical/health services research
• Requirements:
• Education: Earned doctorate or current graduate students
• Deadline: September 1, 2022

Pandemic Preparedness Hub Postdoctoral Fellows

• Description: This new, interdisciplinary fellowship will train recent doctoral graduates from any field who would like to pursue a career in advancing science to prevent or mitigate infectious disease pandemics.
• Type: Fellowship
• Disciplines: Epidemiology, community health, ecology, immunology, clinical-translational science, genetics, biomedical data sciences, and health policy.
• Requirements:
• Education: M.D. within 3 years of completion of clinical training or Ph.D. within 3 years of graduation as of September 1, 2022.
• Deadline: July 15

Marshall Sherfield Fellowships

• Description: Enables American scientists or engineers to undertake post-doctoral research for a period of one to two academic years at a British university or research institute.
• Type: Fellowships
• Disciplines: STEM
• Requirements:
• Education: Earned doctorate
• Deadline: June 2022

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: July 1, 2022

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: July 1, 2022

NSF Survey Researcher

• Description: As part of your fellowship, you will identify or draft measurement items, test these measures, and ultimately field a fully tested questionnaire on an online panel of respondents to generate data for future PPS chapter.
• Type: Fellowship
• Disciplines: Mathematics and Statistics or Social and Behavioral Sciences.
• Requirements: U.S. citizenship is not required for participation in the program. However, depending on the research project, U.S. citizenship or permanent residence may be required.
• Education: Earned doctorate
• Deadline: June 13, 2022

Caspar Wistar Fellows Program at The Wistar Institute

• Description: Provides exceptional autonomy and resources to recent Ph.D. or M.D. graduates with outstanding research records, who are prepared to take an accelerated path toward independence as a principal investigator.
• Type: Fellowship
• Disciplines: Biomedical sciences or medicine
• Requirements:
• Education: Doctorate in biomedical sciences, medicine or a related field within five years of application deadline.
• Deadline: May 31, 2022

AstraZeneca’s R&D Postdoctoral Challenge

• Description: Propose your own innovative ideas to accelerate drug discovery and development.
• Type: Fellowship
• Disciplines: Biomedical sciences or medicine
• Requirements:
• Education: Final year graduate student or an earned PhD or MD.
• Deadline: May 26, 2022

Marion Milligan Mason Award for Women in the Chemical Sciences

• Description: Provides four to five grants of $55,000 every other year to women researchers engaged in basic research in the chemical sciences.
• Type: Award
• Disciplines: Chemistry, biochemistry, physiology, or any chemistry-related field
• Requirements: U.S. citizens or permanent residents who are women
• Education: Earned doctorate
• Deadline: March 18, 2022

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 30, 2022

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 30, 2022

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, 2022

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, 2022

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 17, 2022

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: October 1, 2022

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: July 22, 2022

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