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While at UNC-Chapel Hill, 2022 AOB Postdoc Alexandria Bredar, PhD conducted research with a focus on contributing to a carbon-neutral, recyclable energy infrastructure, working to answer the question, “How can we use sunlight to make fuel?”

Info Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship

Information:

The Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chemical Sciences or Chemical Instrumentation Award Program supports advanced research by postdoctoral scholars within the core areas of fundamental chemistry or the development and build of chemical instrumentation.

Helpful Guides and Program Information

2027 Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship Application Webinar

2027 Program Recorded Webinar

Program Overview Documents:

2027 AOB Postdoctoral Fellowship Letter of Intent Instructions

Letter of Intent Guidance Document

Examples of Successful Letter of Intent Proposals:

Example One - Chemical Sciences

Example Two - Chemical Instrumentation

The Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellows Award is a merit-based program. This program is an Open Call; institutions are not limited to the number of candidates which may apply.

Program Guidelines

The Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chemical Sciences or Chemical Instrumentation Award Program supports advanced research by postdoctoral scholars within the core areas of fundamental chemistry or the development and build of chemical instrumentation; research must be innovative in method, speed or process, or represent new instrument technology. This fellowship will be a catalyst from "mentored yet independent" postdocs to outstanding, independent researchers in academic or industry/governmental labs.

The Fellowships will be in two tracks (applicants will choose one): Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chemical Sciences allows chemists to pursue advanced research within fundamental chemistry, such as chemical physics, chemical engineering, or the chemistry of materials. The underlying proposed research and innovation must be chemistry-focused, although the project can have applications in other fields such as biology or physics. Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chemical Instrumentation will allow researchers in chemistry to conceptualize, develop, and build instrumentation suitable to advanced research in chemistry, chemical physics, chemical engineering, and the chemistry of materials science. Instrumentation projects must be suitable to the two-year fellowship timeframe, be driven by a need in the listed chemical sciences, be innovative in method, speed or process, or represent a wholly new instrument for technological advancement in chemistry. Future potential use to the broader scientific community is a benefit.

About the Award

Fellows will be appointed for two years, with possibility for third year by renewal. Fellows will begin in July of program year. The Fellowship award provides $224,000 over 2 years for salary, fringe benefits, and research expenditures; instrumentation fellowships receive an additional one-time payment of up to $200,000 for material/development costs. The Fellowship may be extended for an optional third year, with $118,000 in funding for salary, fringe and research expenditures, dependent upon review of research progress and a renewal application, which is submitted during the second year of the Fellowship. Grant funds are sent to the awardee's institution for distribution.

2027 Grant Expenditure

Fellows who accept an academic faculty or full-time research position at an academic US research institution will be allowed to transition their current program year funding to their new institution.

Eligibility

Criteria for Applicants at time of…

Topic areas: Education and Training, General and Cross-cutting R&D, Physical Sciences, Energy and Environment, Circular Economy and Sustainability.

Funding amount

This grant provides Varies in funding.

Deadline

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis; there is no single fixed deadline.

Who can apply

This opportunity is open to the following applicant types:

Not specified by the program.

Eligibility

The program did not publish a separate eligibility statement. See the official opportunity page for the full eligibility criteria.

Agency

Arnold O Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is administered by Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation (Beckman), listed via Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation.