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The Postdoctoral Program in Environmental Chemistry provides a principal investigator with an award of $120,000 over two years to appoint a Postdoctoral Fellow in environmental chemistry. The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation seeks to further the development of scientific leadership in the field of environmental chemistry with a postdoctoral fellowship program.
Required Eligibility
The postdoctoral fellow is usually not already identified nor in the principal investigator’s lab at the time of application. Note: award recipients must wait two years from the conclusion of an award before being eligible to reapply.
The Postdoctoral Program in Environmental Chemistry is open to all academic and other not-for-profit organizations in the States, Districts, and Territories of the United States of America. Applications are accepted from principal investigators who have well-established research efforts in environmental science or engineering.
These research activities need not be located in traditional departments in the chemical sciences, and collaboration across departments and institutions is encouraged.
The Postdoctoral Program in Environmental Chemistry provides a $120,000 award, payable in two $60,000 installments. Funds are normally expended over a period of two years after the appointment of the Fellow.
Charges associated with indirect costs or institution overhead are not allowed. Of the total annual award amount, the stipend support of the Fellow is no less than $48,000 (stipends may be supplemented from institutional or other sources). Fringe benefits of the Fellow taken from this award may not exceed $12,000 annually.
Application Procedure
All application materials must be received at the Foundation office by the deadline. Applications recommended for approval are presented to the Foundation’s Board of Directors in time for award announcements by early November.
Required Information
Application package. The application should be formatted on 8 1/2 x 11-inch paper, using 12-point font size. Assemble it as:
- A research proposal that would be judged as likely to advance environmental science in important ways (limited to four pages, including references
- The online application form)
- A CV (limited to five pages) for each of the key professional personnel that includes ten or fewer relevant publications
- A one-page description of the educational opportunities and institutional strengths in environmental science, and how the Fellow would be involved in them
- Send all above materials as a PDF to: programs@dreyfus.org.
Additional Information
- The faculty mentor is designated a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Environmental Chemistry Mentor. The postdoctoral scientist is designated a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Environmental Chemistry Fellow.
- Publications and presentations describing work supported by the award should acknowledge the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Postdoctoral Program in Environmental Chemistry.
- Closing date: August 1, 2017
- Questions may be directed to the Foundation office by e-mail at programs@dreyfus.orgor by telephone at 212-753-1760.