Funder
John Templeton Foundation, US: Templeton theory-experiment cross training (TEX) fellowship
Added date
25/08/2022
Closing date
30/09/2022
Call summary
The John Templeton Foundation invites online funding inquiries for its theory-experiment cross training (TEX) fellowship. This enables PhD-track graduate students whose research focus is primarily either experimental or theoretical, to pursue one year of research in the complementary “cross discipline” (theory for experimentalists or experiment for theorists). The purpose is to increase the fellows’ capacity and skills for bridging methodological divides across theory and experiment in fundamental physics, astronomy, and cosmology, thereby to push the conceptual frontiers at the foundations of these fields and to seed integrated, multidisciplinary research programs in basic science. Fellowships are worth up to USD 250,000 each.
Scientific scope
Physics
PI eligibility
Applicants must be mentored and supported by a primary doctoral advisor at the same institution, as well as by a cross-discipline advisor who may be affiliated with a different organisation. Applications from outside the US are encouraged. Each fellow is expected to remain a graduate student working towards a PhD, to be employed full-time in research, and not to be enrolled in courses or to have teaching or other non-research responsibilities during the term of the fellowship. The fellowship will be paid to the accredited university or college at which the fellow is enrolled and employed.