Applications for Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology Now Open

The Simons Foundation’s Life Sciences division is now accepting applications for its Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology awards. The deadline for receipt of fellowship applications is December 4, 2025, 12:00 p.m. (noon) Eastern time.

The purpose of these fellowships is to support candidates who intend to pursue a career in basic research on fundamental problems in plant biology. We are interested in applicants with training in disciplines that could be brought to bear on plant biology, including but not limited to engineering, computational modeling, theory, chemistry, synthetic biology and physics, as well as applicants already involved in the plant sciences. The program is purposefully flexible to attract diverse expertise.

Applicants may:

1. 1. bring their skills as a plant biologist into the research group of a principal investigator (PI) specializing in another discipline, as listed above;
   2. bring their skills in these other disciplines to the research group of a PI specializing in plant biology;
   3. or identify a pair of PIs — one in the plant sciences and one in another discipline — to jointly advise them on their project.

Applicants should have received their Ph.D. or equivalent degree within three (3) years of the fellowship application deadline. Both U.S. citizens and foreign applicants are invited to apply to work with postdoctoral research sponsor(s) in the U.S. Awards can only be issued to nonprofit research universities or research institutions.

View the RFA.