Fully-Funded The Neuroscience Institute (NI) of Carnegie Mellon University Postdoctoral Fellowship
Applicant criteria
- Both
Opportunity criteria
Opportunity description
The Neuroscience Institute (NI) of Carnegie Mellon University seeks diverse, creative, and collaborative early-career applicants for its Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. Interested applicants are encouraged to reach out to relevant NI faculty (see list here) to develop competitive proposals.
Eligibility criteria:
- a commitment to promoting diverse ideas, perspectives, and voices in our research community,
- a creative, interdisciplinary approach to solving modern problems in neuroscience,
- the skills to develop new methods to study brain, behavior, and their relationship,
- the promise of seeding or promoting sustainable, collaborative links between NI faculty research programs, and
- the potential for proposed research to lead to competitive external funding.
Funding:
NI Fellows will receive an annual stipend of $55,000, full benefits, and a professional development fund of up to $5000 per year. The program seeks to bring new perspectives and voices to our community; researchers already in CMU laboratories are ineligible. Up to two fellowships (renewable annually, typically for two years) will be awarded per year.
To apply, submit a single PDF file containing (in order):
- A cover letter describing your career goals, how the proposed work would prepare you for this path, and how past experiences qualify you for the project (1 page)
- Your proposed research plan (2 pages)
- A diversity, equity, and inclusion statement detailing your commitment to and potential to contribute to a welcoming and open research community (1 page)
- A current CV (2 pages)
- Letters of support from two current NI faculty who will co-mentor your proposed research, which describe how your background qualifies you for the proposed work, the co-sponsor’s role on the project, and how the proposed work relates to, enables, and hopefully expands the co-sponsor’s research program (1 page, each)
About The Neuroscience Institute:
The Neuroscience Institute of Carnegie Mellon University brings together researchers from across the University to conduct multi-disciplinary work to advance the state of brain science. The Neuroscience Institute comprises faculty from five of CMU’s seven schools and colleges, harnessing the university’s core strengths in cognitive science, computation, data science, biology, and engineering. NI strives to be a community that is academically and intellectually rigorous, as well as being diverse, inclusive, and respectful to all of its members. We aspire to promote a collegial professional environment in which all individuals can thrive and do their best work with community support and free from harassment, intimidation, or disrespect.
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