Deadline: March 1, 2024
Applications are open for the Senckenberg Global Fellowship 2024. Senckenberg offers fellowships to highly motivated and talented early career scientists (doctoral candidates and postdoctoral researchers) from the Global South.
The fellowships are awarded for a period of three to a maximum of six months each. Their goal is to support excellent research, to expand and strengthen the worldwide cooperation network and to contribute to the global exchange of knowledge.
They cordially invite you to apply for a Global Fellowship at Senckenberg. Fellows will have access to the 41 million objects in the Senckenberg collection, to the research laboratories and research infrastructures, to the libraries, and to the expertise of the scientific staff. At Senckenberg, you will find optimal working conditions and open-minded colleagues with a broad range of scientific backgrounds in biodiversity, anthropology, geology, collection-based research, genomics, and conservation ecology.
Fellowship
- They offer fellowships for PhD students (€1,600/month) or postdocs (€2,700/month) for 3 months, in selected cases for up to 6 months.
- In addition to the stipend, they offer a one-time travel allowance (up to €1,200).
Eligibility
- Applicants from countries of the Global South will be considered.
- Applicants must hold a Master’s or PhD degree in one of Senckenberg’s research areas.
- You will contact a suitable scientist at Senckenberg, who can be your host, and together you will develop a concept for a suitable research topic, which you will spend the funded time working on at Senckenberg.
- Note that you are only eligible to receive a Senckenberg Global Fellowship if you do not receive a parallel project funding during the period of the fellowship. They would like to exclude double funding in any case.
Application
Required application documents include:
- Letter of motivation with information on your research interests and experience (max. 1 page, in the online form)
- Description of your project idea (planned goals, implementation) for the research to be carried out within the framework of the fellowship, agreed upon with your host at Senckenberg. Explain how the submitted project topic would enrich your personal range of methods and your research portfolio (especially for postdocs). Is this research topic breaking new ground? (max. 1 page, in the online form)
- Letter of support from your host(s) at Senckenberg, acknowledging you and your proposed work, adding to the expertise of the host group, and outlining how your stay will add value to Senckenberg as well. Explain how the named project topic fits into the Senckenberg research landscape, how the Fellow’s project will enrich the research of your working group and the research field as a whole. Will new ground be broken, or existing knowledge gaps closed? (max. 1 page – upload)
- Your current curriculum vitae, including a complete list of your publications (upload)
- Certificates of your Master’s degree and, if applicable, of your PhD (upload)
- Optional: further letters of recommendation (e.g. from mentors, supervisors; upload)
For more information, visit Senckenberg Global Fellowship.
