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 in the foundation’s core areas of fundamental chemistry or the development and building of chemical instrumentation. Research must be innovative in method, speed, or process or represent new instrument technology. Fellows will be appointed for two years (with the possibility of a third year), with an award amount of $180,000 for salary, fringe benefits, and research expenditures; instrumentation fellowships will receive an additional one-time amount of up to $100,000. Fellows receiving a year-three renewal will receive additional $90,000.

Fellowships will be offered on two tracks:

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chemical Sciences — Support for chemists pursuing advanced research in the areas of fundamental chemistry (i.e., chemical physics, chemical engineering, and 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 — Support for researchers in conceptualizing, developing, and building instrumentation suitable to advanced research in chemistry, chemical physics, chemical engineering, and the chemistry of materials science. Instrumentation projects must be suitable for a two-year fellowship time frame, be driven by a need in the chemical sciences listed above, be innovative in method, speed, or process and  represent a wholly new instrument for technical advancement in chemistry and/or have the potential to be used for future research in the broader scientific community.

To be eligible, applicants must be a researcher at a U.S. college, university, or institution that offers postdoctoral fellowships and has a 501(c)(3), or similarly qualifying, IRS designation; a  citizen or permanent resident of the United States; and a current graduate student who anticipates completing a PhD in the chemical sciences by May 1, 2021, 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 the time of the 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 have a PhD or MD/PhD and a full-time tenured or tenure-track position with at least a 25 percent appointment in chemistry, chemical physics, chemical engineering, or materials chemistry department at their institution.

See the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation website for complete program guidelines and application instructions.