Fulbright Scholar- Fulbright Astronomy and Antarctic Studies Award (Postdoctoral Scholars/Early Career Scientists) Chile

The aim of this award is to enhance research efforts and increase academic exchange opportunities in two specific areas of interest in Chile/U.S. academic work - Astronomy and Data Sciences and Antarctic Studies. The award seeks to fund up to four postdoctoral fellows and early career scientists for three to four months.

In Astronomy and Data Sciences, the award seeks to fund postdoctoral fellows and early career scientists from U.S. institutions, for three to four months, to establish collaborations with astronomers and data scientists at Chilean institutions. Astronomy and Data Sciences applicants must contact Mason Taylor, Program Officer for U.S. Grantees at the Fulbright commission for additional information.

The duration and timing of the visits will be agreed upon by the U.S. scientists and the Chilean host institutions.

In Antarctic Studies, the Fulbright commission has established a partnership with the Chilean Antarctic Institute (Instituto Antártico Chileno – INACH). The award seeks to fund postdoctoral fellows and early career scientists from U.S. institutions, for three to four months, to establish collaborations with researchers at the INACH in the following research areas: The State of the Antarctic Ecosystem; Antarctic Thresholds: Ecosystem Resilience and Adaptation; Antarctic Climate Change; Physical and Earth Sciences; Antarctic Microbiology and Molecular Biology; and Antarctic Environment. For further details on the research areas please refer to the institute’s science program at this link. 

The duration and timing of the visits will be agreed upon by the U.S. scientists and the Chilean host institutions.

While this award is open to any project in the disciplines listed above, there is interest in scholars who are in these particular specialty areas.

Applications are only sought in Astronomy, Data Science and Antarctic Studies.

You must be a US Citizen.

If you have questions, email: westhem@iie.org