| Agency | Program | Description | Deadline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Argonne National Laboratory | Maria Goeppert Mayer and Enrico Fermi Fellowships | Fellows are hired as an Argonne Scholar with benefits, salary and a research stipend. Appointments may be renewed annually for up to 3 years, with the possibility of retention | October |
| Army Research Laboratory | Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowships | Opportunity to pursue independent research that supports the mission of ARL. | May |
| Brookhaven National Laboratory | Goldhaber Distinguished Fellowship | Three-year appointments awarded to candidates with exceptional talent and credentials who have a strong desire for independent research at the frontiers of their fields. | March |
| Department of Defense | Naval Research Laboratory Postdoctoral Fellowship Program | Designed to increase the involvement of creative and highly trained scientists and engineers from academia and industry to scientific and technical areas of interest and relevance to the Navy. | Applications accepted any time |
| Department of Energy | Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Science, Technology and Policy (STP) Program | Serves as a next step in the educational and professional development of scientists and engineers interested in energy efficiency and renewable energy policy. | January & June |
| Fusion Energy Sciences Postdoctoral Research Program | Offers recent doctoral degree recipients the opportunity to conduct research in DOE’s fusion energy research and development programs. | December | |
| Mickey Leland Energy Fellowship (MLEF) Program | Provides opportunities to gain hands-on research experience with DOE’s Office of Fossil Energy. | January | |
| Department of Transportation | Postgraduate Research Opportunity in Science, Technology and Engineering | Under the guidance of a mentor, the selected participants will have the opportunity to conduct research on existing and emerging technologies, processes, and approaches for communications, navigation, and surveillance technologies that can be used to enhance the future of transportation. | May |
| Fermilab | John Peoples Fellowship in Accelerator Science | Created with the goal of attracting outstanding accelerator scientists early in their careers. | May |
| Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | Lawrence Fellowship | Fellowships are awarded to candidates with exceptional talent, scientific track records, and potential for significant achievements. | October |
| Luis W. Alvarez Postdoctoral Fellowship in Computing Science | Provides recent graduates (within the past three years) opportunities to work on some of the most important research challenges in computing sciences. | November | |
| Los Alamos National Laboratory | Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellows | Candidates must display extraordinary ability in scientific research, potential to impact Laboratory programs and/or ability to establish new capabilities, and show clear promise of becoming outstanding leaders. | Varies by fellowship |
| Fellows | Varies by fellowship | ||
| NASA | Postdoctoral Fellowships | Provide early-career and more senior scientists the opportunity to share in NASA’s mission, to reach for new heights and reveal the unknown so that what we do and learn will benefit all humankind. | March, July & November |
| Hubble Fellowship Program | Provides an opportunity for recent postdoctoral scientists to conduct independent research which contributes to any area of NASA Astrophysics. | November | |
| National Energy Technology Laboratory | Postgraduate Research Program (PGRP) | Continue developing advanced research skills, and outline and achieve career goals. | Applications accepted any time |
| Professional Internship Program | An opportunity to network with world-class scientists using state-of-the-art equipment and to expand students’ knowledge in their field of study while exposing them to new areas of basic and applied research. | February (for summer appointments) | |
| Director’s Postdoctoral Fellowship | Attracts the next generation of exceptionally qualified scientists and engineers with outstanding talent and credentials in renewable energy research and related disciplines. | August | |
| National Institutes for Health | F05 International Research Fellowships | To provide collaborative research opportunities for qualified foreign scientists who hold a doctoral degree or its equivalent in the biomedical or behavioral sciences. | April, August & December |
| F31 Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Individual National Research Service Award | To provide postdoctoral research training to individuals to broaden their scientific background and extend their potential for research in specified health-related area. | April, August & December | |
| F32 Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Individual National Research Service Award | To provide postdoctoral research training to individuals to broaden their scientific background and extend their potential for research in specified health-related areas. | April, August & December | |
| K01 Mentored Research Scientist Career Development Award | The purpose of this program is to provide support and protected time for an intensive, supervised career development experience in the biomedical, behavioral, or clinical sciences leading to research independence. Some NIH Institutes use the K01 to enhance workforce diversity, or for individuals who propose to train in a new field, or for individuals who have had a hiatus in their research career. | February, June & October | |
| K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Awards | This program is designed to facilitate a timely transition of outstanding postdoctoral researchers or clinician-scientists from mentored research positions to independent, tenure-track or equivalent faculty positions, and to provide independent NIH research support during the transition that will help these individuals launch competitive, independent research careers. | Varies by program | |
| Emerging Leaders in Data Science Fellowship | Rotational program providing training and hands-on-experience in applying and managing big data sets, bioinformatics strategies and tools to support projects in NIAID’s extramural and intramural divisions. | February | |
| Joint Veterans Health Administration/National Cancer Institute Data Science Postdoctoral Fellowship – the Big Data Scientist Training Enhancement Program (BD-STEP) | To increase capacity for data-driven cancer research by supporting healthcare-focused data science training. | July | |
| Bioinformatics Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellowship in Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases (F32) | Enables promising postdoctoral fellows to obtain interdisciplinary training from outstanding faculty sponsors in bioinformatics and scientific research relevant to the mission of NIDDK’s Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases (DDEMD) | April, August, December | |
| NINDS Postdoctoral Mentored Career Development Award (K01 – No Independent Clinical Trial Allowed) | To support the ability of outstanding, mentored postdoctoral researchers to develop a potentially impactful research project with a comprehensive career development plan that will enable them to launch an independent research program. | May | |
| BRAIN Initiative Fellows: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship (F32) | To enhance the research training of promising postdoctorates, early in their postdoctoral training period, who have the potential to become productive investigators in research areas that will advance the goals of the BRAIN Initiative. | July | |
| National Renewable Energy Laboratory | Research Participant Program | Seeking qualified postdocs for temporary researcher appointments. As a postdoctoral researcher, you’ll have the opportunity to receive advanced training from a mentor and to enhance your professional skills. The appointment also would support the research independence required to pursue your chosen career path. | Applications accepted any time or for specific positions |
| Director’s Fellowship | The NREL Director’s Fellowship attracts the next generation of exceptionally qualified scientists and engineers with outstanding talent and credentials in renewable energy research and related disciplines. | March, September | |
| National Science Foundation | Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships | Intended to recognize beginning investigators of significant potential, and provide them with experience in research that will broaden perspectives, facilitate interdisciplinary interactions and help establish them in leadership positions within the Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences community. | Applications accepted any time |
| EAR Postdoctoral Fellowship (EAR-PF) | The Division of Earth Sciences (EAR) awards Postdoctoral Fellowships to recent recipients of doctoral degrees to conduct an integrated program of independent research and professional development. | September | |
| Data Analysis and Statistics Summer Internships | March | ||
| Mathematical and Physical Sciences Ascending Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (MPS-Ascend) | To support postdoctoral Fellows who will broaden the participation of groups that are underrepresented in MPS fields. | June | |
| National Security Innovation Network | TNSF: Technology and National Security Fellowship | An opportunity for technologists and entrepreneurs to serve their country by embedding with key decision makers at the top levels of the U.S. Government to provide advice and emerging expertise for issues at the critical intersection of national security and technology. | May |
| Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education | Intelligence Community (IC) Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program | Offers scientists and engineers unique opportunities to conduct research relevant to the Intelligence Community. | February |
| Research Participation Program at the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) | |||
| Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Distinguished Staff Fellowship Program | Aims to cultivate future scientific leaders by providing dedicated mentors, resources, and enriching research opportunities at a national laboratory. | Fall and spring application windows annually |
| Innovation Crossroads | Matches aspiring energy entrepreneurs with experts, mentors and networks in technology-related fields to take their world-changing ideas from R&D to the marketplace. | October | |
| Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | Linus Pauling Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship | Pauling Fellows will be encouraged through active mentoring by internationally recognized scientists and equipped with the resources to carry out a research program of their own design. | |
| Sandia National Laboratories | Truman Fellowship | Truman Fellows conduct independent ground-breaking research that supports Sandia’s national-security mission. Fellows choose their own research topics and benefit by having access to Sandia’s state-of-the-art facilities and collaborating with some of the nation’s best scientists and engineers | November |
| John von Neumann Fellowship | Opportunity to conduct innovative research in computational mathematics and scientific computing on advanced computing architectures. | November | |
| Jill Hruby Fellowship | This fellowship aims to develop women in the engineering and science fields who are interested in technical leadership careers in national security. | November | |
| United States Department of Agriculture | Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Education and Workforce Development | Focuses on developing the next generation of research, education, and extension professionals in the food and agricultural sciences | August |
| Funding Entity | Program | Description | Deadline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acoustical Society of America | Frederick V. Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship in Acoustics | Fellows receive a stipend, provided jointly by the Hunt estate and a fund established by the Acoustical Society, to support their research on a topic in acoustics at an institution of their choice. | October |
| American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education | American Fellowships | Women pursuing full-time study to complete dissertations, conducting postdoctoral research full-time, or preparing research for publication for eight consecutive weeks. | November |
| International Fellowships | Women pursuing full-time graduate or postdoctoral study in the United States who are not U.S. citizens or permanent residents | November | |
| American Australian Association | USA to Australia Fellowships for Graduate and Postdoctoral Study | Areas of interest: Biophotonics; Marine Sciences; Engineering; Technology; Sciences; Mathematics; Sustainability; Medicine | October |
| American Cancer Society | Postdoctoral Fellowships | Researchers who are within 3 years of receiving a doctoral degree may apply for initial funding to start training for an independent career in cancer research (including basic, preclinical, clinical, cancer control, psychosocial, behavioral, epidemiology, health services and health policy research). | April |
| American Chemical Society | Women Chemists Committee/Eli Lilly Travel Award | Funding for undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral female chemists to travel to meetings to present the results of their research. | March 1 (for meetings between July 1 and December 31) September 15 (for meetings between January 1 and June 30) |
| American Heart Association | AHA Postdoctoral Fellowship | August | |
| Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation | Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chemical Sciences | To conduct advanced research within in the core areas of fundamental chemistry | September |
| Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chemical Instrumentation | To conceptualize, develop and build instrumentation suitable to advanced research in chemistry fields. | September | |
| Association of Public Health Laboratories | APHL-CDC Bioinformatics Fellowship | Aims to train and prepare bioinformaticians to apply their expertise within public health and design tools to aid existing public health personnel in the use of bioinformatics. | February |
| Burroughs Wellcome Fund | Career Awards at the Scientific Interface | Provide $500,000 over five years to bridge advanced postdoctoral training and the first three years of postdoctoral training. | September (pre-proposal) |
| Postdoctoral Enrichment Program | To support the career development activities for underrepresented minority postdoctoral fellows in a degree-granting institution in the U.S. or Canada whose training and professional development are guided by mentors committed to helping them advance to stellar careers in biomedical or medical research. | January | |
| Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science | Visiting Fellows Program | To stimulate interdisciplinary research across the institute through engagement with CIRES researchers on campus and in Boulder’s NOAA Laboratories. Visiting Fellows work with CIRES researchers on a wide range of environmental science topics. | January |
| Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation | Damon Runyon Fellowship Award | Encourages all theoretical and experimental research relevant to the study of cancer and the search for cancer causes, mechanisms, therapies and prevention. | August, March |
| Dartmouth College | The Neukom Institute for Computational Science: Neukom Fellows | Interdisciplinary positions for recent PhDs, DMAs or MFAs whose research interests or practice cuts across traditional disciplinary boundaries, and has some computational component. | November |
| Society of Fellows – Postdoctoral Fellowships | These fellowships foster the academic careers of scholars who have recently received their Ph.D. degrees, by permitting them to pursue their research while gaining mentored experience as teachers and members of the departments and/or programs in which they are housed. | September | |
| Earth Institute at Columbia University | Fellows Program | The premier program in the world for those dedicated to a better understanding of critical scientific and social issues in global sustainable development. | October |
| Fulbright Scholar Program | Postdoctoral and Early Career Awards | These awards are open to U.S. scholars who have recently completed their doctoral degree – typically within the five previous years. | September |
| United States-Israel Education Foundation – Fulbright Post-Doctoral Fellowships | For the brightest and most innovative scholars who aspire to research in Israel and join the Fulbright heritage. | September | |
| Harvard University | Rowland Fellows Program | Provides early career scientists with funding for up to five years to establish an independent research program. | August |
| Environmental Fellows Program | Recent doctorate recipients work for two years with Harvard faculty to create new knowledge while also strengthening connections across academic disciplines. | January | |
| Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs – Energy Innovation and Decarbonization Fellowships | To understand the interactions between policies and technologies as the world attempts to decarbonize the energy system, while simultaneously addressing concerns about security, reliability, and cost. Accepting proposals on 1) hydrogen, 2) large-scale carbon management, and 3) biofuels/low-carbon fuels. | January | |
| Heart Rhythm Society | HRS Research Fellowship Scholarship | Provides a one-year stipend to PhD recipients. | February |
| Human Frontier Science Program | Postdoctoral Fellowships | 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. | August |
| Cross-Disciplinary Fellowships (CDF) | For applicants with a PhD from outside the life sciences (e.g. in physics, chemistry, mathematics, engineering or computer sciences) who have not worked in a biological field before. | May | |
| Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute | Runway Startup Postdoc Program | Accepts PhDs who have graduated within the past 5 years or students nearing the end of their PhD program. Candidates are interested in the application of digital technologies in a broad sense. | April |
| James S. McDonnell Foundation | Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards | Support scholarship and research directed toward the discovery and refinement of theoretical and mathematical tools contributing to the continued development of the study of complex, adaptive, nonlinear systems. | June |
| Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics | Postdoctoral Scholars in Theoretical Physics | To provide a full-time training program of advanced academic preparation and research training under the mentorship of a faculty member. | November |
| Life Sciences Research Foundation | Postdoctoral Fellowship Program | To identify and fund exceptional young scientists at a critical juncture of their training in all areas of the basic life sciences. | October |
| Materials Research Society | MRS/OSA Congressional Science and Engineering Fellowship | Spend one year working as a special legislative assistant on the staff of a member of Congress or congressional committee. | January |
| Monell Chemical Senses Center | Postdoctoral Fellowship Program | Positions are currently available for interdisciplinary training and research in the areas of Sensation and Perception, Genetics, Neuroscience and Molecular Biology, Environmental and Occupational Health, Nutrition and Appetite, Health and Well-Being, and Chemical Ecology and Communication. | Application inquiries accepted any time |
| National Research Council | Research Associateship Program – U.S. Army Research Laboratory | February, May, August, November | |
| Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowships | Provide one year of support to individuals who have demonstrated superior academic achievement, are committed to a career in teaching and research at the college or university level, show promise of future achievement as scholars and teachers, and are well prepared to use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students. | December | |
| Research Associateship Programs – Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute | To conduct independent research in an area compatible with the interests of the sponsoring laboratory; devote full-time effort to research and publication; access the excellent and often unique facilities of the federal research enterprise; and collaborate with leading scientists and engineers at the sponsoring laboratories. | November | |
| Resources for the Future | Gilbert F. White Distinguished Visiting Fellowship | Intended for researchers in any discipline who have a doctoral degree and wish to devote a year to scholarly work in areas related to natural resources, energy, or the environment. | |
| Schlumberger Foundation | Faculty for the Future Fellowships | Awards fellowships to women from developing and emerging economies to pursue PhD or postdoctoral research. | November |
| Simons Foundation | Bridge to Independence Award | Aimed at senior postdoctoral fellows who intend to seek tenure-track faculty positions during the upcoming academic year. | April |
| Smithsonian Institution | Environmental Research Center Fellowships | The Smithsonian Environmental Research Center offers a variety of fellowship opportunities to graduate, pre- and post-graduate students. | December 1 |
| Society for Neuroscience | Neuroscience Scholars Program | An extensive two-year training program open to underrepresented neuroscience graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. | February |
| Stanford University | Molecular Imaging Scholars Program | SMIS fellows will be recruited into a three-year program to complete coursework and research with at least two complementary mentors. | June |
| Karel Urbanek and Marvin Chodorow Postdoctoral Fellowships | This annual program is aimed at recruiting young scientists of exceptional ability with the potential to do outstanding research in applied physics. | November | |
| The Helen Way Whitney Foundation | Research Fellowship | Grants financial support of sufficient duration to help further the careers of young men and women engaged in biological or medical research. | June |
| University Corporation for Atmospheric Research | National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Postdoctoral Fellowship Program | Conduct independent research at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. ASP fellows are part of a collaborative cohort, are mentored by leading NCAR scientists and engineers, and benefit from the breadth of science and training happening at NCAR. | January |
| NOAA Postdoctoral Program in Climate and Global Change | Appoints fellows that are hosted by a mentoring scientist at a U.S. university or research institution to work in an area of mutual interest. | January | |
| High Altitude Observatory Postdoctoral Fellows | Offers two-year postdoctoral fellowships to early career Ph.D. scientists interested in theoretical, experimental and observational studies of the Sun and Earth’s upper atmosphere. | December | |
| Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | Postdoctoral Scholar Program | Eighteen-month awards offered annually to recipients of new or recent doctorates in the fields of chemistry, engineering, geology, geophysics, mathematics, meteorology, physics, and biology, as well as oceanography. | October |
| Funding Entity | Program | Description | Deadline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Skandalaris Center for Interdisciplinary Innovation and Entrepreneurship | Suren G. Dutia & Jas K. Grewal Global Impact Award | To support the vision and passion of Washington University students, postdoctoral researchers, and recent alumni who are creating ventures that are scalable, sustainable, and quick-to-market with proof of concept and a broad impact. | November |
| The McDonnell Center for Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology | Postdoctoral Fellowship | Internal fellowship for candidates with at least one year of postdoctoral training in a WU laboratory and who are conducting research that fits with the center’s overall mission. | April |
| Company | Program | Description | Deadline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baxter | Baxter Young Investigator Awards | Awards cash prizes to postdocs and graduate students conducting current research relevant to the company’s portfolio. | June |
| Facebook Reality Labs Liquid Crystal Research Awards | To encourage young generations in the LC field and in other cross-disciplinary fields to help unlock the possibilities of LC technology in the AR/VR field. | July | |
| Lilly | Lilly Innovation Fellowship Award Program | Identify and foster exceptional post-doctoral scientists pursuing ground breaking research projects. The prestigious LIFA program pairs a post-doctoral scientist with their academic mentor and a Lilly scientist, who serves as an industry mentor, to advance an innovative research proposal developed by the fellow. **Internal Competition- Log in with WUSTL Key (for some users, typle “accounts” before WUSTL Key | December (Internal deadline) |
| L’Oreal | L’Oreal USA for Women in Science | Five annual awards of $60,000 each for contributions in STEM fields and commitment to serving as role models for younger generations. | February |
| Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | Regeneron Prize for Creative Innovation | To recognize and honor excellence in biomedical science conducted by graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. | January |
| Funding Entity | Program | Description | Deadline |
|---|---|---|---|
| British Academy | Newton International Fellowships | Enable researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of fostering long-term international collaborations. | March |
| CERN | Fellowships | CERN offers different categories of fellowship in line with different levels of education and experience. | Varies by fellowship |
| Engineering World Health | Summer Institutes | Two-month service abroad program that places participants in the hospitals and clinics of low-resource countries to assist with equipment maintenance, repair and training. | November, December & January |
| Fondation Sciences Mathématiques de Paris | Post-Doctoral Fellowships in Mathematics and Computer Science | Appointed fellows will hold one- or two-year positions in affiliated research laboratories. | December |
| Tel Aviv University | Dan David Prize | Awards scholarships to doctoral and postdoctoral researchers, carrying out research in one of the selected fields for the coming academic year. Granted according to merit. | March |