Post-Doctoral Fellowships

• The Post-Doctoral funding is granted for a period of two years.
• To apply for these fellowships, institutions must be registered with the AXA Research Fund. The AXA Research Fund does not accept unsolicited applications from individual applicants.
• Please note that although a given candidate may be presented twice by the same institution, they cannot submit the same proposal twice.
• Applications must be submitted by the research institution to which the candidate’s host laboratory belongs, and where the post-doctoral work is to be carried out.

• In 2013, only one call for applicants will be made to accommodate differences in the academic calendar.

Process:

1.      First Round Application: The Institution Representative fills in the form about the fields the institution wants to propose candidates in and why, on the AXA Research Fund’s application website.

Opening: January 17th, 2013 ; Closing: February 7th, 2013 at noon (Paris Time GMT +1)

2.    Second Round Application:
                                                                                                                                           a. Pre-selection of candidates by the institution: The Institution Representative submits the names and emails of the pre-selected candidates on the AXA Research Fund’s application website. 

Opening: February 14th, 2013; Closing: March 21st, 2013 at noon (Paris Time GMT +1)

         b. The candidates receive an email from the AXA Research Fund, providing them with an access and a password to fill in their on-line application, on the AXA Research Fund’s application website.

They are allowed to fill in their application as soon as their institution has submitted it.

Closing: April 18th, 2013 at noon (Paris Time GMT +1)     

3.      Review of applications 
    - Review by international referees
    - Final selection by the Scientific Board of the AXA Research Fund

4.      Selection criteria:
   - Academic excellence of the candidate 
   - Innovative approach and originality of the project
   - Feasibility of the project (management, organization, budget) 
   - International reach of the host laboratory
   - International mobility high value is placed on candidates who have spent, since their Master’s Thesis, a minimum of 1 semester abroad dedicated to field work, academic studies, research or/and to conferences, or plan to spend a minimum of 1 semester abroad during the course of their Postdoc studies.
    - No more than 5 years between PhD defense and start of PostDoc project (valued but not required)                                                                                                                                        -    Ability to transmit his/her work and popularize his/her research. While not eliminatory, this criterion may differentiate between two equally qualified applications.

       5.         Communication of results:
           - The Fund announces the projects selected for funding on the publication of results page on July 26th, 2013.     
           - The Fund contacts the selected applicants and the operational contact to start the contracting process with the institution