Applications for Chemistry Postdoctoral Fellowship

The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation is accepting applications for the Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship.

The fellowship program supports advanced research by postdoctoral scholars addressing the core areas of fundamental chemistry or the innovation and development of chemical instrumentation. Research must be innovative in method, speed, or process or represent new instrument technology. Through the program, fellows will be appointed for two years, with a possibility of a third-year renewal with an award of $180,000 over two years for salary, fringe benefits, and research expenditures; instrumentation fellowships will receive an additional one-time grant of up to $200,000. Fellows receiving third-year renewal awards will receive an additional $90,000.

Fellowships will be offered in two tracks:

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chemical Sciences: Will support chemists pursuing advanced research in the core areas of fundamental chemistry, such as chemical physics, chemical engineering, or chemistry of materials research. The fellowship is not intended to fund proposals that are supported by traditional NIH mechanisms in the fields of chemistry, chemical biology, or biochemistry.

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chemical Instrumentation: Will support researchers in chemistry in the conceptualization, development and building of instrumentation suitable to advanced research in chemistry, chemical physics, chemical engineering, or chemistry of materials science. Instrumentation projects must be suitable to the two-year fellowship timeframe; driven by a need in the chemical sciences listed above; innovative in method, speed, or process; or represent a wholly new instrument for technical advancement in chemistry and which may potentially be used for future research in the broader scientific community.

Applicants must be attending a U.S. college, university, or institution that offers postdoctoral fellowships and holds a 501(c)(3) or similarly qualifying IRS designation; be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident of the United States; and anticipating completion of a PhD in the chemical sciences by May 1, 2022; or a current postdoctoral researcher with a granted/conferred PhD in the chemical sciences with no more than eighteen months cumulative postdoctoral research experience (at time of application due date). In addition, applicants must pursue postdoctoral training in an area of chemical sciences that would likely not be eligible for funding by traditional chemical biology, biochemical, or biological science mechanisms (e.g., NIH-K award) and have identified a mentor in the chemical sciences at a qualified U.S. nonprofit college, university, or institution with appropriate laboratory facilities to support their postdoctoral research proposal.

Sponsoring mentors must be a PhD, or MD/PhD; a full-time tenured or tenure track professor with at least a 25 percent appointment in chemistry, chemical physics, chemical engineering, or materials chemistry department at their institution.

For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation website.