IASH Postdoctoral Fellowships for
Excellent Foreign
Researchers in Israel
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
February 2020
The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities is
pleased to announce that two-year postdoctoral fellowships for excellent
foreign researchers will be awarded for the amount of 157,000.00 NIS (at the
exchange rate of 3.45 NIS per USD) per year. The fellowships will be awarded to
outstanding scholars in the fields of natural sciences, exact sciences,
medicine,
life sciences and engineering.
The IASH will fund half each fellowship per year. The
recipient researcher will receive at least half of the fellowship in matching
from the hosting university.
Universities are encouraged to raise the fellowships
even higher, so as to make it considerably superior to the standard postdoc
fellowship, which will accentuate the excellence of awardees.
Eligibility:
Researchers who fulfil all of the following 3
conditions qualify:
1. The fellowships are limited to researchers in the
natural sciences, exact sciences, medicine, life sciences and engineering.
2. Candidates should be foreign (non-Israeli) citizens
who reside abroad at the time of submission and should be no more than 6 months
in Israel when they begin their fellowships.
3. Candidates may be no longer than 4 years after
attaining their PhD at the time of application (not including maternity leave).
Material required for submission:
1. Letter of request for the fellowship by the
candidate – in English, printed on maximum
2 pages, font size 12 pts., line spacing 1.5
2. Letter of commitment from the host researcher in
Israel - in English, printed on formal university stationery, maximum 2 pages
3. A formal letter of commitment of the host
university to cover the matching
4. CV and list of
publications (list only), including journal rankings and impact factors
5. Two letters of recommendation only, up to 2 pages
each
6. Short work plan (2 pages)
All the material should be sent in one PDF file. No
hard copy is necessary.
