SCHMIDT SCIENCE FELLOWSHIPS 2023 | Fullly-Funded

Hi, We have good news for you, applicants are now invited to apply for the SCHMIDT SCIENCE FELLOWSHIPS 2023. The Fellowship opportunities are only for graduate-level degree programs. The scholarships are Fully-Funded and candidates from all over the world are eligible to apply.

The Schmidt Science Fellows program furnishes the world’s best-arising researchers with new abilities and points of view to create novel answers for society’s difficulties, become logical and cultural idea pioneers, and speed up notable disclosures. The program is searching for the most splendid personalities in the common sciences, math, designing, and registering who are keen on expanding their viewpoints.

Colleagues get an allowance of $100,000 USD each year and are upheld to seek after a one to long-term postdoctoral situation at a world-driving research center anyplace on the planet in a disciplinary turn from their Ph.D. Colleagues likewise benefit from a Global Meeting Series and customized coaching program. We encourage you to apply for the SCHMIDT SCIENCE FELLOWSHIPS 2023. 

UBC is one of the select gatherings of the world’s driving science and designing organizations that are welcome to assign understudies to the global rivalry. In 2022, 24 Schmidt Science Fellows were chosen to be beneficiaries internationally.

Details About the SCHMIDT SCIENCE FELLOWSHIPS 2023

• Country: Canada
• University: University of Columbia, Canada
• Fellowship Type: Fully Funded
• Program Period: Four Years
• Benefit: $100,000 USD/Annually

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Eligibility Criteria

To be qualified for assignment and expected determination as a Schmidt Science Fellow, competitors should meet the accompanying prerequisites:

• Probably finished, or hope to finish, every one of the prerequisites for the conferral of their UBC Ph.D., including effective protection. If it’s not too much trouble, note that imminent UBC understudies are not qualified for designation.
• Have directed their advanced education in the normal sciences (Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Earth Sciences), Engineering, Mathematics, or Computing – and all sub-teaches in that
• Be accessible for the whole time of the 2022 program, from July 2022 to September 2023 including participation in the Global Meeting Series (regardless of whether virtual or face-to-face, as conditions permit).

The Schmidt Science Fellows program is focused on uniformity of chance for all competitors. Applications from people are supported paying little mind to age, handicap, sex, sex personality, sex reassignment, sexual direction, pregnancy or maternity, parental status conjugal or common accomplice status, race, shading, ethnic or public cause, identity, religion or conviction.

Evaluation Criteria:

The Schmidt Science Fellows program is searching for the most splendid personalities in the normal sciences, arithmetic, designing, and processing who are keen on expanding their viewpoints, turning away from their Ph.D. research territory and seeking after a difficult and compensating time of study in an elective control with world-driving researchers. Schmidt Science Fellows are required to become science pioneers and ought to show a distinct fascination for tackling interdisciplinarity and associating with more extensive society. Applicants should have the drive to handle a portion of the world’s most squeezing issues and the character to lead, rouse, and electrify cross-disciplinary joint efforts to speed up revelation prompting significant arrangements.

Applications for the Schmidt Science Fellows program will be decided against the accompanying standards:
Intellect:

• Extraordinary Achievement: Clear record of scholarly accomplishment of the greatest quality in technical disciplines and an unprecedented level of insight.
• Scientific Curiosity and Innovation: High level of scholarly interest joined with energy and imagination; a record of ceaseless development or potential utilization of new advances

Programmatic Fit:

• Alignment with the Program: Interest in seeking after 12 to two years of postdoctoral examination in a field not the same as the candidate’s Ph.D. discipline and a conviction that interdisciplinary science and the taking of fitting logical dangers are significant for the progression of disclosure.
• Collaborative Spirit: History of successful cooperation with different colleagues.

Leadership:

• Character and Leadership: Genuine and certifiable potential for science initiative; showing persistence, strength, an ethical compass, and an arousing power of character.
• Worldwide Ambition for Social Good: Desire to utilize one’s very own abilities and science to have a beneficial outcome in the public arena and the world.

Application Procedure:

Schmidt Science Fellowships candidates should present their application materials to their UBC graduate program. Candidates should check with their UBC graduate program to discover their inside application cutoff time. A total application will comprise of the accompanying:

• CV, including distributions (greatest three pages)
• A brief description of your Ph.D. research (most extreme one page)
• Personal Statement (Maximum one page): Description of your leadership qualities, tending to the accompanying two focuses: (a) character and initiative (certifiable and self-evident potential for science authority; showing constancy, versatility, an ethical compass, and an electrifying power of character) and (b) worldwide aspiration for social great (want to utilize your own gifts and science to have a constructive outcome in the public arena and the world)
• Proposal (Maximum two pages), addressing the following points:Description of your proposed postdoctoral research direction, that addresses an authentic, goal-oriented and creative disciplinary takeoff from your Ph.D. contemplates, with an unmistakable objective towards acquiring new abilities in another space and building up field-driving interdisciplinary lines of exploration with potential for the high award and cultural effect. When composing your proposition, kindly location the accompanying two focuses: (a) arrangement with the Schmidt Science Fellows program (i.e., premium in seeking after 12 two years of postdoctoral investigation in a field unique in relation to your Ph.D. discipline and a conviction that interdisciplinary science and the taking of fitting logical dangers are significant for the headway of disclosure) and (b) cooperative soul (i.e., showed the history of a viable coordinated effort with different colleagues.
• Three short outlines of potential labs in which you may carry out this research.

• One letter of support (maximum 2 pages).. The letter ought to be marked and on letterhead (where conceivable). The letter should address the assessment rules.
• Successful UBC nominees will be invited directly by the Schmidt Science Fellows program to submit a full application at a later date.

Nomination Procedure:

Each UBC graduate program is welcome to submit one assignment to a college-wide rivalry. Given the profoundly aggressive nature of this chance, graduate projects ought to designate just an excellent person who will stand apart among top candidates from around the world.

A total designation bundle will comprise of the accompanying, submitted as 1 PDF report to the office’s Workspace envelope, by 7 May 2022 at 4:00 pm PST:

• CV, including publications (maximum three pages)
• A brief description of Ph.D. research (maximum one page)
• Personal Statement (maximum one page)
• Proposal (maximum two pages)
• One letter of support (maximum 2 pages)

Details on the documents noted above are outlined in the ‘Application Procedures section of this webpage.

Please save the file name as Schmidt_PROGRAM_LastName_FirstName.pdf (e.g. a nomination file for student Jane Smith from MATH would be called Schmidt_MATH_Smith_Jane.pdf).

Adjudication Procedure:

The Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies will meet an advisory group to audit the designations put together by offices and will assign up to nine understudies to the global rivalry.

The Schmidt Science Fellows program hopes to report the worldwide outcomes in March.

Further Information:

For additional info about the Schmidt Science Fellows, please visit the Schmidt Science Fellows website.  You may find the answer to your question in the website FAQ.

For further information, please contact Natalie Thorson.