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  1. Simons Collaborations in Mathematics and the Physical Sciences - Request for Applications 2028

    Funding Opportunity
    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.
  2. 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.
  3. Simons Centers of Excellence at Historically Black Colleges and Universities - 2027 Request for Applications

    Funding Opportunity
    Supports up to two HBCU Centers of Excellence in mathematics, physics and ecology and evolutionary biology to advance research, collaboration and pathways to graduate STEM programs.
  4. Utilizing the Full Power of Empire AI - 2027 Request for Applications

    Funding Opportunity
    The Simons Foundation has launched an international collaborative research program designed to fill fundamental scientific knowledge gaps relevant to Solar Radiation Management.
  5. Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology – Request for Applications 2027

    Funding Opportunity
    These postdoctoral fellowships support candidates who intend to pursue a career in basic research on fundamental problems in plant biology. This program aims to support researchers seeking to …
  6. SPARK Research Match Expansion — Request for Applications 2026-2027

    Funding Opportunity
    The SPARK Research Match Expansion request for applications (RFA) encourages and supports applications for SPARK Research Match studies from principal investigators to increase SPARK research opportunities to individuals …
  7. 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 …
  8. 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 …
  9. Travel Support for Mathematicians - 2027 Request for Applications

    Funding Opportunity
    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 …
  10. New Ideas - 2026 Request for Applications

    Funding Opportunity
    The goal of the New Ideas Award is to provide early stage support for bold, exploratory research that tests novel hypotheses and opens new conceptual or experimental directions …
  11. Targeted Grants in MPS

    Funding Opportunity
    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 …
  12. Solar Radiation Management - 2027 Request for Applications

    Funding Opportunity
    The Simons Foundation has launched an international collaborative research program designed to fill fundamental scientific knowledge gaps relevant to Solar Radiation Management.
  13. Junior Fellows of the Simons Society of Fellows - Request for Nominations 2027

    Funding Opportunity
    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 …
  14. Synthetic Plant Biology – Request for Applications 2027

    Funding Opportunity
    Supports research applying engineering principles to understand plant function, from developing sensors and engineering resilient plants to genetic modifications that reveal trade-offs in growth and development.
  15. Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution – Request for Applications 2027

    Funding Opportunity
    Supports students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs in ecology and evolution, with particular interest in interdisciplinary research spanning ecological and evolutionary timescales and other STEM fields.
  16. Simons Fellows in Mathematics - Request for Applications 2027

    Funding Opportunity
    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.
  17. Centers of Excellence in Ukraine - Request for Applications 2026

    Funding Opportunity
    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 …
  18. Simons Collaborations in Ecology and Evolution - Request for Applications 2027

    Funding Opportunity
    Simons Collaborations bring together investigators across disciplines to tackle timely, important scientific problems and foster the exchange of ideas that can lead to breakthroughs.
  19. Pivot Fellowship – 2026 Request for Applications

    Funding Opportunity
    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 …
  20. Scientific Software Research Faculty Award - Request for Applications 2026

    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 …
  21. Targeted Grants to Institutes - 2027 Request for Applications

    Funding Opportunity
    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.
  22. Simons Symposia – 2028 Request for Applications

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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 …
  23. Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution – Request for Applications 2026

    Funding Opportunity
    Supports students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs in ecology and evolution, with particular interest in interdisciplinary research spanning ecological and evolutionary timescales and other STEM fields.
  24. Fellows-to-Faculty - 2025 Request for Applications

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    Supports early career scientists transitioning to tenure-track positions with a $600,000 three-year research grant, mentoring, peer support and a collaborative community.
  25. Conference Support for Rare Neurodevelopmental Disorder Communities Participating in Simons Searchlight

    Funding Opportunity
    … we support partners, programs and initiatives that seek to broaden the scientific community and open pathways to science and mathematics careers. The Simons Foundation provides equal opportunities …
  26. Fellows-to-Faculty - 2026 Request for Applications

    Funding Opportunity
    The Fellows-to-Faculty Award helps early career scientists transition to tenure-track positions with a $600,000 three-year research grant, mentoring, peer support and a collaborative …
  27. Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology – Request for Applications 2026

    Funding Opportunity
    Supports postdoctoral researchers bringing diverse expertise to fundamental questions in plant biology, fostering interdisciplinary research and new approaches to the plant sciences.
  28. Simons Dissertation Fellowship in Mathematics - Request for Applications 2026

    Funding Opportunity
    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 …
  29. Data Analysis — Request for Applications 2025

    Funding Opportunity
    … partners, programs and initiatives that seek to broaden the scientific community and open pathways to science and mathematics careers. The Simons Foundation provides equal opportunities to all …
  30. Simons Foundation Autism & Neuroscience Conferences and Courses Awards - Request for Applications 2026

    Funding Opportunity
    Supports conferences and courses advancing research across autism and neurodevelopment, healthy cognitive aging, ecological neuroscience, and systems and computational neuroscience.
  31. Autism Rat Models Consortium 2.0 RFA

    Funding Opportunity
    … awardees of this RFA will work as a consortium to use these rat models to further our understanding of the behaviors and underlying neural circuits relevant to …
  32. Simons Early Career Investigator in Aquatic Microbial Ecology and Evolution Awards - Request for Applications 2025

    Funding Opportunity
    These awards supported early career investigators studying microbial ecology, biogeochemistry and evolution in marine and freshwater systems.
  33. Linking Early Neurodevelopment to Neural Circuit Outcomes — Request for Applications

    Funding Opportunity
    … find an extended list of literature describing early developmental phenotypes here.
  34. Pilot Award — Request for Applications 2024

    Funding Opportunity
    … Investigators will include the evaluation of progress on previous or ongoing SFARI grants. Instructions for Submission Applications must be submitted via the Simons Award Manager (SAM). Please …
  35. Shenoy Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Neuroscience (SURFiN) - Request for Applications 2026

    Funding Opportunity
    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 …
  36. Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Marine Microbial Ecology

    Funding Opportunity
    The Simons Foundation’s Life Sciences division invited applications for postdoctoral fellowships to support candidates who intended to pursue a career in basic research on fundamental problems in …
  37. SFARI Pilot Progression Award — Request for Applications 2024

    Funding Opportunity
    … towards the page limit. Our Commitment to Expanding Pathways to Science and Opportunities for All Many of the greatest ideas and discoveries come from a diverse mix …
  38. NSF-Simons National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Institutes in the Astronomical Sciences

    Funding Opportunity
    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 …
  39. Human Cognitive and Behavioral Science — Request for Applications

    Funding Opportunity
    … individuals with autism; for example, machine learning approaches that could amplify measurable gains from intensive behavioral interventions would be of interest. SFARI considered the following as out …
  40. Neuroscience Collaborations Vision Statements Call

    Funding Opportunity
    … Collaboration on the Global Brain (SCGB) and the Simons Collaboration on Plasticity and the Aging Brain (SCPAB).
  41. Cross-Species Studies of ASD — Request for Applications

    Funding Opportunity
    … background. While there is no rigorous way to model “idiopathic” ASD in non-human animals, we encouraged applicants to carefully consider and rationalize comparisons of humans with …
  42. Simons Investigator in Aquatic Microbial Ecology Awards - Request for Applications 2025

    Funding Opportunity
    Microbes inhabit and sustain all habitats on Earth. In both marine and freshwater systems, microbes capture solar energy, catalyze biogeochemical transformations of important elements, produce and consume greenhouse …
  43. Small-Scale Experiments for Fundamental Physics

    Funding Opportunity
    The funders invite applications to a one-time call aimed at advancing fundamental physics by funding small-scale experiments that explore physics which has typically been explored at …
  44. Genomics of ASD: Pathways to Biological Convergence and Genetic Therapies — Request for Applications

    Funding Opportunity
    Grants awarded through this request for applications (RFA) were intended to advance our understanding of the genetic basis of ASD and the molecular and cellular consequences of genetic …
  45. SCPAB Research Awards - 2020 Extension RFA

    Funding Opportunity
    This RFA is by invitation only. We are soliciting progress reports and proposals for two years of further funding to expand and develop previously funded SCPAB Awards. These …
  46. Analysis of Postmortem Brain Tissue from the Autism BrainNet Collection — Request for Applications

    Funding Opportunity
    Grants awarded through this request for applications (RFA) were intended to advance the understanding of ASD through analyses of human postmortem brain tissue donated to the Autism BrainNet …
  47. NSF-Simons Collaboration on a National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology (NITMB)

    Funding Opportunity
    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 …
  48. Autism Rat Models Consortium — Request for Applications

    Funding Opportunity
    … circuits relevant to autism and related NDD.
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