Simons Foundation Accepting Applications for Simons Collaborations in Ecology and Evolution

The Simons Foundation’s Life Sciences division is now accepting applications for its Simons Collaborations in Ecology and Evolution awards. The deadline for receipt of vision statements is October 16, 2025, at 12 p.m. (noon) Eastern time.

The goal of Simons Collaborations is to bring together groups of outstanding scientists to address topics of fundamental scientific importance, with a focus on fields in which significant new developments have created novel opportunities for exploration. The purpose of the Simons Collaborations in Ecology and Evolution awards is to identify new, emerging breakthrough areas of ecology and evolution that are poised for high-impact funding from the Simons Foundation. We are interested in idea-generating research that focuses on basic principles of ecological and evolutionary dynamics, especially their interface, and that may be overlooked or too risky for other funding organizations.

We will prioritize cross-disciplinary collaborations that integrate levels of scale, for example, from genes to species to communities, from local to global processes or across ecological and evolutionary time scales. We are particularly interested in projects that cut across boundaries, whether these boundaries entail fields and subfields, diverse methodological approaches and/or the geographical regions from which investigators work.

Among other eligibility requirements, all investigators must hold a Ph.D. or equivalent degree and have a faculty position or the equivalent (eligible for receiving grant funding as a PI) at a college, university, research institute or other research facility.