Hector Pioneer Fellowship: STEM 2490 views

The Hector Pioneer Fellowship is offered by the Zukunftskolleg in collaboration with the Hector Stiftung II and is dedicated to extraordinary post-doctoral researchers in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) fields.

Study areas:

• Chemical Biology and Ecology
• Molecular Nanotechnology and Materials Science
• Decision Sciences

Duration: 5-year

Funding: annual research allowance (for funding research assistants or equipment; start-up, consumerables and travel costs; at least 50,000 € or an equivalent

Eligibility Criteria:

• Applicant must hold PhD degree (PhD thesis submitted and defended) and have acquired a maximum of 4 years of postdoctoral research experience
• Applicant must not hold a permanent position in academia, a professorship, or have a habilitation or equivalent.
• Applicant must propose a research project that ties in with one of the STEM disciplines and ideally with one of the academic focus areas of the University of Konstanz.
• Applicants must contact potential guides (Local Hosts) among the researchers at the University
• Applicants with their own position funded by another program, which can be transferred to Konstanz, are also eligible.

Applications:

• Applications to be submitted via the online application portal. The following documents are required to submit the application:
• Complete application form
• Motivation Letter (1 page max)
• Project Outline (5 pages max)
• CV
• Copies of all relevant degree certificates
• Writing Sample (30 pages max)
• Two letters of reference