Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (MSPRF)

Up to three years

$190,000

The total Fellowship amount is $190,000 and consists of two separate types of payments.

1. A monthly stipend of $5,833 (up to $70,000 annually) for full-time support (or $2,917 for half-time support) is paid directly to the Fellow as an electronic funds transfer into a personal account at a financial institution.
2. A total allowance of $50,000 is paid in lump sums of $30,000 and $20,000 in the first and second Fellowship years, respectively, to the Fellow in the same manner for:

• expenses directly related to the conduct of the research, such as materials and supplies, subscription fees and recovery costs for databases, travel, and publication expenses, and/or
• support of fringe benefits, including health insurance provided through either a group plan offered by the host organization or an individual plan secured by the Fellow, dental and/or vision insurance, disability insurance, retirement, dependent care, and moving expenses.

An individual is eligible to submit a proposal to this program if all the following criteria are met:

• Must, at the time of submission, be a U.S. citizen, U.S. national, or a legally admitted permanent resident alien of the United States;
• May not have held the doctoral degree more than 2 years as of January 1 of the year of the award;
• Must propose research in an area of mathematics or statistics;
• May not have previously been a principal investigator or co-principal investigator of an NSF award (other than a graduate research fellowship or an award in support of a conference or workshop );
• May not submit a research plan duplicated in another NSF proposal;
• Must not have previously been offered an award by the MSPRF program; and
• Must have a doctoral degree conferred before the postdoctoral appointment start date.