Sponsor
Simons Foundation
Sponsor deadline:
Award Details
The purpose of these awards is to help launch the careers of outstanding investigators in the fields of microbial ecology, microbial biogeochemistry and/or microbial evolution in marine or natural freshwater systems, who will advance our understanding through field work, experiments, modeling or theory. Investigators must currently be active in basic research addressing fundamental questions in these fields and must focus a large fraction of their lab’s effort in one of these areas. Applicants whose research focuses on the microbiomes of animals or plants, symbioses of microbes with animals, coral biology, paleoceanography, geobiology or aquatic pollution will not be considered.
Applicants must hold a Ph.D. or equivalent degree. They must currently hold a tenure-track or tenured position, and have carried out research in such a position starting no earlier than November 2020 and no later than July 2024.
Award value: $270,000 USD/year for 2 years.
Applicants should submit Letters of Intent and finalists will be invited to submit full applications.