Simons Foundation | Pivot Fellowship Request for Applications
Event details
| Date | 29.04.2022 |
| Category | Call for proposal |
Aim: The Simons Foundation invites applications for the Pivot Fellowship program, which will support researchers who have a strong track record of success and achievement in their current field, and a deep interest, curiosity and drive to make contributions to a new discipline. The fellowship will enable today’s brightest minds to apply their talent and expertise to a new field, and will consist of one training year where the fellow will be embedded in a lab of a mentor to learn the new discipline and its culture. At the end of the fellowship year, fellows will be invited to submit an application for a 3-year research award in the new field for up to $1.5M.
Duration: 12 months
Funding: Salary support for fellow +
$10K for fellow’s research/travel +
$50K for mentor’s research
Eligibility: Fellows and Mentors must hold a Ph.D., M.D. or equivalent degree in the natural sciences, Engineering, Mathematics, Data Science, or Computer Science, and be faculty at an academic institution or hold an equivalent position. Fellows must demonstrate that the fellowship will take place in a new discipline, distinct from their current field of study, within Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Neuroscience, Physics or Mathematics — and all subdisciplines therein. In order to receive the fellowship, Fellows must be approved by their institution for a full year of leave. Fellows must not hold any other fellowships that would provide them with salary support during the training year of the Pivot Fellowship.
How to Apply: All interested grant applicants must submit their applications online through proposalCENTRAL. To begin, log in as an applicant, navigate to the grant opportunities tab, select Simons Foundation from the ’Filter by Grant Maker’ drop-down list. You will then see the list of current Simons Foundation grant opportunities and will be able to select Simons Foundation Pivot Fellowship. If EPFL will serve as your host institution, please use the following institution name in proposalCENTRAL: Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL. A signature page is required for this submission; contact the Research Office for the institutional signature as early as possible.
Deadline: 29 April 2022
Further information
Duration: 12 months
Funding: Salary support for fellow +
$10K for fellow’s research/travel +
$50K for mentor’s research
Eligibility: Fellows and Mentors must hold a Ph.D., M.D. or equivalent degree in the natural sciences, Engineering, Mathematics, Data Science, or Computer Science, and be faculty at an academic institution or hold an equivalent position. Fellows must demonstrate that the fellowship will take place in a new discipline, distinct from their current field of study, within Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Neuroscience, Physics or Mathematics — and all subdisciplines therein. In order to receive the fellowship, Fellows must be approved by their institution for a full year of leave. Fellows must not hold any other fellowships that would provide them with salary support during the training year of the Pivot Fellowship.
How to Apply: All interested grant applicants must submit their applications online through proposalCENTRAL. To begin, log in as an applicant, navigate to the grant opportunities tab, select Simons Foundation from the ’Filter by Grant Maker’ drop-down list. You will then see the list of current Simons Foundation grant opportunities and will be able to select Simons Foundation Pivot Fellowship. If EPFL will serve as your host institution, please use the following institution name in proposalCENTRAL: Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL. A signature page is required for this submission; contact the Research Office for the institutional signature as early as possible.
Deadline: 29 April 2022
Further information
- More information about the program is available here.
- The application portal proposalCENTRAL can be found here.
- For any other questions, or to complete the signature page, please contact the Research Office.
Practical information
- General public
- Free