BERI Early Career Award; Postdoctoral: NCBS 3413 views

NCBS (National Centre for Biological Sciences) and the BioEngineering Research Initiative (BERI) offers BERI Early Career Award to biologists, physicists, engineers, material scientists and medical doctors. The BERI early career awards comprise postdoctoral positions, under existing research programs in the Bangalore Bio Cluster. Applicants are expected to work alongside the lab members, while bringing in expertise in bio-engineering.

Award value: Rs. 60,000 per month (consolidated fellowship)

Duration: 2 years; possible extension for a third year (depending on the evaluation conducted towards the end of the second year).

Requirements:

• Applicant must not have more than 4 years of postdoctoral research experience
• Applicant must be able to clearly articulate their scientific interests and directions.
• Applicant must be sponsored by a local host who is a member of NCBS/inStem Faculty.
• Applicants will identify the laboratory with which they would like to be associated in preliminary discussions with the host faculty member. Once both the host faculty member and the candidate agree, an application can be submitted to Head Academics at NCBS who will coordinate the processing and review of the application.

Applications:

• Full application package (a single collated PDF) must include the following:
• Latest CV
• Research proposal with detailed plans and timelines of the project, developed in close collaboration with your proposed host
• A letter of support from proposed host (emailed directly to acadoffice@ncbs.res.in)
• Minimum 2 letters of references (emailed directly by the referees to acadoffice@ncbs.res.in)

Deadline: BERI is currently accepting applications throughout the year.

Contact: acadoffice@ncbs.res.in / rashi@instem.res.in / thattai@ncbs.res.in