AXA Fellowship campaign

Deadline: 20th May 2019

The AXA Research Fund have announced a new AXA Fellowship campaign.

The AXA Fellowship is a funding scheme aiming at supporting young promising researchers on a priority topic aligned with AXA and the Society. Their support should be transformative for the researcher and the advancement of her/his research field.

ELIGIBILITY

Institutions

Host institutions must be registered in the AXA Research Fund’s database

Institutions can apply only when a projects call is open. Projects which are not direclty linked to the call for proposals’ topics are not eligible.

Institution can present only one candidate for the whole institution (and not one per department, faculty or laboratory)

Institutions hosting an AXA Chair cannot request for an extra Post-Doctoral fellowship for a researcher working on the AXA Chairholder’s team.

Researcher

Candidates should be maximum PhD+ 5 years with proven scientific excellence and high potential for innovation, transformation and dissemination.

Research Program

The research program should demonstrate its scientific originality and innovative nature. Projects selected for funding are expected to start the latest one year after the result’s announcement.

For further information on this opportunity please click here

For UEL academic staff thinking of applying to this opportunity please contact your Director of Research beforehand as well as the ReDS team at reds@uel.ac.uk