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Each Simons Symposia series brings together mathematicians, theoretical physicists and/or theoretical computer scientists to interact and collaborate in a series of up to three symposia, held every second year and focusing on one topic or a tightly connected group of topics.

The program is intended to support established institutes or centers in the mathematics and physical sciences through funding to help strengthen contacts within the international scientific community.

The Simons Fellows in Mathematics program makes sabbatical research leaves more productive by providing funding to extend them from a single term to a full academic year.

The Simons Foundation has launched an international collaborative research program designed to fill fundamental scientific knowledge gaps relevant to Solar Radiation Management.

The aim of the Simons Collaborations in MPS program is to stimulate progress on fundamental scientific questions of major importance in mathematics, theoretical physics and theoretical computer science.

The Simons Foundation intends to support cutting-edge mathematics and basic science research, drawing on the advanced computational power of the Empire AI.Toward this goal, SF plans to initiate a new program to fund six to 12 proposals through a competitive open call to the Empire AI research community.

The MPS division invites rolling letters of intent for the Targeted Grants in MPS program, which supports high-risk theoretical mathematics, physics and computer science projects of exceptional promise and scientific importance on a case-by-case basis.

The Simons HBCU Centers of Excellence program will support up to two Centers of Excellence (“CoEs”) at HBCU institutions in mathematics, physics and ecology & evolutionary biology. The program aims to foster research excellence and collaboration, and to provide pathways for students to successfully enroll in graduate STEM programs.

The Simons HBCU Faculty Fellowship program will support up to four (4) junior tenure-track faculty in mathematics, physics and ecology & evolutionary biology at HBCU institutions by buying out 50% of their teaching responsibilities. This protected research time will enable fellows to focus on conducting research, publishing findings and submitting federal grant proposals to build…

The MPS division invites applications for its Travel Support for Mathematicians program, which is intended to stimulate collaboration in the field primarily through the funding of travel and related expenditures.

Junior Fellows are outstanding young scientists who receive support from the foundation for up to 3 years to conduct independent research at an NYC educational institution. The foundation requires Junior Fellows to attend weekly lectures and dinners at the foundation during the academic year, as well as an annual conference and a 4-day weekend retreat.

The Synthetic Plant Biology program is intended to support research that applies engineering principles and techniques to advance our understanding of how plants function. These projects can tackle a variety of goals, including the development of sensors to study plant physiological responses, the engineering of plants capable of withstanding inhospitable environments, genetic modifications that reveal…

The Simons Foundation intends to continue supporting basic science and mathematics in Ukraine, with the goal of fostering research excellence and international collaboration. Toward this goal, SF and SFI plan to initiate a new program to fund eight to 10 Centers of Excellence through a competitive open call to the research community in Ukraine.

The purpose of these awards is to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution. While we will consider all projects in ecology and evolution, we are particularly interested in interdisciplinary research that jointly considers processes on both ecological and evolutionary timescales, or that links…

The fellowship will enable today’s brightest minds to apply their talent and expertise to a new field and will consist of one training year where the fellow will be embedded in a lab of a mentor to learn the new discipline and its culture.

The goal of the Shenoy Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Neuroscience (SURFiN) program is to spark and sustain interest in neuroscience among undergraduate students who have not had access to research training opportunities.

The Autism & Neuroscience division at the Simons Foundation is accepting applications for funding of conferences and courses. This year, conferences and courses that align with the scientific missions of any of the following programs will be prioritized: Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI), with a mission to advance the basic science of autism and…

The Simons Foundation seeks to create strong collaborations and foster the cross-pollination of ideas between investigators, as these interactions often lead to unexpected breakthroughs. Towards this end, in 2012 the foundation launched a new collaborative funding model, the Simons Collaborations, which funds groups of investigators — often from different disciplines — to work together on…

The MPS division invites applications for the Simons Dissertation Fellowship in Mathematics to provide research support to excellent graduate students in the final years of their Ph.D. studies. This program was created to honor the work of our late founder, Jim Simons, and his commitment to supporting the field of mathematics.

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.

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-year faculty research grant. Additionally, fellows engage with a community of investigators and receive mentoring and peer support during their transition. The Simons Foundation’s Autism & Neuroscience division offers…

The Simons Foundation’s Life Sciences division invites applications for postdoctoral fellowships 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,…

Microbes inhabit and sustain all habitats on Earth. In both marine and freshwater systems, microbes capture solar energy, catalyze biogeochemical… Read More

This program was titled “Early Career Investigator in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution Awards” from 2015-2022. The purpose of these awards was to help launch the careers of outstanding investigators in the fields of microbial ecology, microbial biogeochemistry and/or microbial evolution in marine or natural freshwater systems, who will advance our understanding through field work,…

Debbie Lindell is associate professor in the biology department at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

The Simons Foundation’s Life Sciences division invited applications for postdoctoral fellowships to support candidates who intended to pursue a career… Read More

The NSF and the Simons Foundation jointly support two national AI research institutes in the astronomical sciences. These institutes focus on the co-advancement of astronomy, astrophysics and artificial intelligence through multidisciplinary, multi-stakeholder research on large-scale, longer-term horizon challenges.

We seek vision statements to identify new, emerging breakthrough areas of neuroscience that are poised for high-impact funding by the… Read More

Insights into how dopamine directs learning and new techniques for imaging and tracing cells were just some of the advances described at the third annual gathering of the Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain

Cengiz Pehlevan joined Center for Computational Biology’s Neuroscience group in 2015 to build theories of neural computation and to develop methods to analyze large neuroscience datasets in order to test such theories. Prior to joining the foundation, Pehlevan was a postdoctoral associate at the Janelia Research Campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Virginia.…

The National Science Foundation Directorates for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (NSF/MPS) and for Biological Sciences (NSF/BIO) and the Simons Foundation Division of Mathematics and Physical Sciences (SF/MPS) shall jointly sponsor a new research institute to facilitate collaborations among groups of mathematicians (including statisticians and computational scientists) and biologists.

Falk Wachowius was a postdoctoral research fellow at Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology studying an RNA polymerase ribozyme with general replication capacity.

Yi Sun will be joining the Department of Mathematics at Columbia University as a postdoctoral research scientist. He completed his Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the supervision of Pavel Etingof.

Liang Liang is an assistant professor in the Department of Neuroscience at Yale University.

James Heys was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Daniel Dombeck at Northwestern University and is now Assistant Professor, Department of Neurobiology, University of Utah.