Human Frontier Science Program Postdoctoral Fellowships

Deadline: August 27, 2020	Institution(s): Human Frontier Science Program
Level of Study: Postdoctoral	Study in: List of Host Countries is given below

Scholarship Description

Human Frontier Science Program Postdoctoral Fellowships

Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Postdoctoral Fellowships invite applications from international students who want to pursue postdoctoral research. Postdoctoral Fellowships will provide a living allowance as well as a research and travel allowance. Depending on their specific situation fellows may also qualify to receive a child allowance, a parental leave allowance, and a relocation allowance.

The HFSP fellowship program supports proposals for frontier, potentially transformative research in the life sciences. Applications for high-risk projects are particularly encouraged. The projects should be interdisciplinary in nature and should challenge existing paradigms by using novel approaches and techniques. Scientifically, they should address an important problem or a barrier to progress in the field.

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Courses Offered:

• Physics
• Chemistry
• Mathematics
• Engineering
• Computer sciences

Program Period:

• 3 years

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Scholarship Coverage

Human Frontier Science Program Postdoctoral Fellowships will provide a living allowance as well as a research and travel allowance. Depending on their specific situation fellows may also qualify to receive a child allowance, a parental leave allowance, and a relocation allowance.

Eligibility Criteria

To qualify for Human Frontier Science Program Postdoctoral Fellowships, candidate must fulfill all of the following requirements below:

• Required Language: English. 
• Eligible Countries: All world countries
• Applicants must propose to work in a country different from the one where they did their previous Ph.D. work or first post-doctoral studies. For those institutions that are not classified as national, i.e. international or extraterritorial institutions such as EMBL, ICPT or ICGEB, the country in which the laboratory is located will be considered the host country.
• A research doctorate (Ph.D.) or a doctoral-level degree comparable to a Ph.D. with equivalent experience in basic research (e.g. a research-based MD or medical Ph.D.) must be conferred by the start of the fellowship but is not required at the time of submission.
• Applicants must have at least one lead author, full-length research paper – either accepted for publication, in the press or published – in an international peer-reviewed journal or published on a preprint server.
• Only papers written in English are taken into account. Review articles and patents are not taken into account.
• Electronic copies of lead author publications must be uploaded while preparing the application. They cannot be uploaded after the applicant has submitted.

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1. Before submitting an application, please check with your proposed host institution whether it is willing to accept an HFSP award.
2. Applications must be submitted via the HFSPO website, which will open in 1st July 2020 at https://extranet.hfsp.org.
3. Applicants may update their publication list via the HFSPO website until August 27, 2020.

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