Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (MSPRF)
The purpose of the Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (MSPRF) is to support future leaders in mathematics and statistics by facilitating their participation in postdoctoral research environments that will have maximal impact on their future scientific development. There are two options for awardees: Research Fellowship and Research Instructorship.
- The Research Fellowship option provides full-time support for any eighteen academic-year months in a three-year period, in intervals not shorter than three consecutive months;
- The Research Instructorship option provides a combination of full-time and half-time support over a period of three academic years, usually one academic year full-time followed by two academic years half-time. This option allows the Fellow the opportunity to gain teaching experience during the two half-time academic years. The full-time fellowship support will be provided during the first year except in extremely unusual circumstances, with any exception subject to approval by the managing program director.
Awards will support research in areas of mathematics and statistics, including applications to other disciplines.
Full Proposal Deadline is October 19, 2022 by 5 p.m. (submitter’s local time)
Up to three years
$190,000
The total Fellowship amount is $190,000 and consists of two separate types of payments.
- 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.
- 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.
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- Andrew D. Pollington, telephone: (703) 292-4878, email: [email protected]
- Stefaan G. De Winter, telephone: (703) 292-2599, email: [email protected]
- Tiziana Giorgi, telephone: (703) 292-8090, email: [email protected]
- Yuliya Gorb, telephone: (703) 292-2113, email: [email protected]
- Edsel A. Pena, telephone: (703) 292-8080, email: [email protected]
- Jeremy Tyson, telephone: (703) 292-7210, email: [email protected]