Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
Postdoctoral researchers play a significant role in the Simons Institute's research ecosystem. We offer three different types of postdoctoral positions: programmatic research fellowships, Simons-Berkeley research fellowships, quantum research fellowships, and machine learning research fellowships.
Programmatic Research Fellowships
The Simons Institute offers about sixteen programmatic fellowships each semester. The majority of these are for one semester, in connection with a specific program, but several appointments for a full academic year are also available. In each semester of residence, a fellow normally participates in at least one of the ongoing programs at the Institute.
In addition, the Institute co-hosts joint fellowships, in which a fellow spends a period (typically one semester) as a Simons Institute research fellow and is also appointed to a research position at a partner institution. Positions at partner institutions include: postdoctoral positions at the Center for Mathematical Modeling in Santiago, Chile; the Collaboration on the Theoretical Foundations of Deep Learning (Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, UCI, UCSD, TTIC, EPFL, Hebrew); the Foundations of Data Science Institute (Berkeley, MIT, Boston, Bryn Mawr, Harvard, Howard, Northeastern); the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute at UC San Diego; the Institute for Foundations of Machine Learning (UT Austin, University of Washington, WSU); the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken, Germany; the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, and the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel.
Applications for programmatic research fellowships for 2023–2024 are due December 15, 2022. More information here.
Quantum Research Fellowships
The Simons Institute's Research Pod in Quantum Computing hosts a number of postdoctoral research fellows. These positions are funded by is supported in part by the Department of Energy (DOE) via the newly established Quantum Systems Accelerator (QSA), and by the National Science Foundation (NSF) via the Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes (QLCI) award. Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis. Full information here.
Machine Learning Research Fellowships
The Simons Institute's Research Pod in Machine Learning also hosts postdoctoral research fellows, funded by the NSF-funded Foundations of Data Science Institute (FODSI), and by a joint initiative of NSF and the Simons Foundation, the Collaboration on the Theoretical Foundations of Deep Learning. A call for applications is forthcoming.
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