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Simons Historically Black Colleges and Universities Faculty Fellowship – 2027 Request for Applications

Funding Opportunity

Supports junior HBCU faculty with protected research time to advance their work, pursue grants and publications, build collaborations, and create pathways for students into graduate STEM programs.

Apply by November 12, 2026

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Fellows-to-Faculty – 2027 Request for Applications

Funding Opportunity

The Fellows-to-Faculty Award program supports talented early career scientists by facilitating their transition into tenure-track faculty positions. The focus of this program is the $600,000 USD three (3) year faculty research grant.

Apply by January 13, 2027

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Scientific Software Research Faculty Award – Request for Applications 2027–2028

Funding Opportunity

The MPS division invites applications for the Scientific Software Research Faculty Award, which supports new research professor positions in existing academic departments to be filled by scientific software-focused researchers no later than September 1, 2027.

Apply by January 21, 2027

Flatiron Centers

The Flatiron Institute is the Simons Foundation’s internal center for computational science research.

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Life at Simons

Collaboration defines how we work. Across departments, disciplines, and time zones, we come together to advance mathematical and scientific discovery.

Recent Publications

Topological Phase Transitions Induced by Disorder in Magnetically Doped (Bi, Sb)\(_2\)Te\(_3\) Thin Films

Takuya Okugawa, Peizhe Tang, Rubio, Angel, and Dante M. Kennes

Single-particle spectral function formulated and calculated by variational Monte Carlo method with application to \(d\)-wave superconducting state

Charlebois, Maxime and Masatoshi Imada

Ultrasound evidence for a two-component superconducting order parameter in Sr\(_2\)RuO\(_4\)

S. Benhabib, C. Lupien, I. Paul, L. Berges, M. Dion, M. Nardone, et al.