Einstein Fellowships
The Einstein Postdoctoral Fellowship program, sponsored by NASA, awards Fellowships to recent Ph.D.s in astronomy, physics, and related disciplines.
Einstein Fellows hold their appointments at a Host Institution in the U.S. for research that is broadly related to the science goals of the NASA Physics of the Cosmos program. This includes high energy astrophysics relevant to Chandra, Fermi, XMM-Newton, and future NASA X-ray missions, cosmological investigations relevant to Planck, WFIRST, or new dark energy missions, and gravitational astrophysics relevant to LISA, Pathfinder and subsequent related missions. The proposed research may be observational, instrumental, theoretical, archival or study sources from these missions at other wavelengths.
The main criterion for proposal selection is the contribution of the proposed program of research to the scientific return of the Physics of the Cosmos missions. The Fellowship duration is three years (subject to review after the second year and to availability of funds from NASA).
Fellowship News
Fellow
Recipients Announced
4/3/2012
Twelve Einstein Fellows were selected
to the 2012 class. Read about them here.
Applicants Status
1/20/2012
As of Jan 20, 1pm EST, all offers have
been made and those on the wait-list notified. "Sorry" emails have
been sent out.
Committee
Deliberations Complete
1/19/2012 12:45pm
The committee has finished their
deliberations. Highly ranked candidates will be contacted via phone
and email over the next 24 hours. We expect to award twelve Einstein
Fellowships for 2012.
Application
Schedule
1/5/2012
We hope to start contacting successful applicants and those on the wait list by phone/email as soon as the panel finishes deliberating on Jan 19 (late afternoon or early evening) with contacts carrying over to January 20. "Sorry" emails should go out late on Jan 20. Relevant updates will be provided on this web-page.
Final
Numbers
1/5/2012
We received 189 valid applications for
the 2012 contest.
