Deadline:
November 20, 2024
Location(s)
Canada
Toronto
Overview
Accelerate your career. Transform your research.
Collaborate across disciplines with leading global researchers. Expand your network and pursue cutting-edge ideas with unrestricted research support. Join our international community of brilliant people advancing transformative knowledge and solving humanity’s biggest problems.
Applications for the 2025-2027 CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars program are now being accepted through November 20, 2024 (11:59 p.m. Pacific Standard Time).
Details
The CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars program provides:
- Interdisciplinary interactions: Pursuing the most exciting and important research questions requires scholars who can move beyond their own research areas to take a fresh look at a problem. CIFAR helps early-career researchers think and work outside their silos by facilitating dialogue between diverse disciplines and immersing them in our research programs for a truly enriching experience.
- Leadership development: Excellent management and communication skills will be key to success in the demanding and competitive world of research. Through annual meetings of CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars from across CIFAR’s research programs, and additional learning experiences supported by the Love Family Leadership Development Fund, CIFAR designs one-on-one and peer-group training opportunities on themes related to the leadership development needs of Global Scholars.
- Engagement in global communities: Tomorrow’s research leaders must understand how to engage with key stakeholders in their communities around the world, with government, industry, or the general public. CIFAR provides early-career researchers opportunities to refine the skills they develop, interacting with leaders both within and outside of academia.
About CIFAR Azrieli
Finding the root causes of human diseases. Developing technology to improve quality of life. Bridging the divide between rich and poor nations. Meeting our future energy needs. The toughest challenges facing humanity demand new ways of thinking. They also call for different kinds of thinkers – exceptional minds working together to gain insights that might otherwise remain undiscovered.
CIFAR has been successfully taking on difficult challenges for more than three decades. Our global research programs connect many of the world’s best minds – across borders and between disciplines – to shape new perspectives and spark groundbreaking ideas. By helping innovative pioneers push further, and inspiring young research leaders to join them, we are able to expand the boundaries of understanding in ways that would otherwise not be possible.
We offer our research fellows the rarest of commodities: freedom to take the kinds of intellectual risks that are essential for creating truly transformative knowledge. And then we help to share that knowledge – on everything from improving human health to advancing technology, from building strong societies to sustaining the Earth – with engaged stakeholders who are ready to put ideas into action.
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Eligibility
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Description of Ideal Candidate
Eligibility
Applicants can be from anywhere in the world, must hold a PhD (or equivalent) and be within the first five years of a full-time academic position. Scholars’ research interests must be aligned with the themes of an eligible CIFAR research program. See the detailed program overview for full eligibility requirements.
NOTE: Postdoctoral fellows are not eligible to apply.
Dates
Deadline: November 20, 2024
Cost/funding for participants
CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars receive:
- A two-year term in a CIFAR research program, a global, interdisciplinary network of top-tier research leaders.
- $100,000 CAD in unrestricted research support
- Mentorship from a senior researcher within a CIFAR research program
- Opportunities to network, collaborate and form a community with peers from diverse disciplines across CIFAR’s research programs
- Specialized leadership and communication skills training, and support to put their skills into action, through participation in two cross-cohort annual meetings.
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