Melbourne Career Interruption

The Rutherford Discovery Fellowships are designed to support the development of future research leaders and to assist with the retention and repatriation of New Zealand's talented early- to mid-career researchers. This is a prestigious fellowship scheme run by the Royal Society of New Zealand and open across all disciplines. It is aimed at researchers building an independent profile and advancing their research careers within a New Zealand context. The award is offered as a multi-year fellowship...

The JSPS Research Fellowship is a recurring fellowship scheme offered by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science in Japan. It is designed for excellent young researchers and supports work on a freely chosen research topic based on the fellow’s own innovative ideas. The program is positioned as a research-focused opportunity aimed at fostering and securing excellent researchers. It is open to applicants from worldwide, and the posting indicates research career levels spanning PhD and maste...

Rubicon is a recurring postdoctoral fellowship scheme from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) that supports talented researchers from Dutch universities and research institutes run by KNAW and NWO in building an international postdoctoral career. The fellowship is designed to help researchers take a next step beyond the PhD and gain experience abroad through a postdoctoral project hosted outside the Netherlands. The scheme is framed around research mobility and career dev...

The Cornell Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship is a three-year postdoctoral opportunity at Cornell University designed to support early-career researchers across disciplines. The program is open worldwide and is intended for candidates who are within two years of completing the PhD. Fellows join a steady cohort of postdoctoral researchers at Cornell and may, depending on their interests and career goals, include a teaching component during the appointment. The teaching commitment, if included,...

Ambizione is a funding scheme from the Swiss National Science Foundation for young researchers who want to develop an independent project at a Swiss higher education institution. The opportunity is designed to support researchers at an early stage after the PhD as they build independence, take responsibility for a project, and gain experience in research leadership within the Swiss academic environment. The scheme is framed as a regular fellowship or scholarship-style call rather than a single f...