October 31, 2024
Doctoral Fellowship – The Young Scientists Summer Program at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) – Summer 2025
Application Deadline: January 13, 2025
IIASA’s Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP) offers an extraordinary opportunity for PhD candidates to spend a summer in Vienna, Austria, and undertake a scientific project within the scope of their PhD on a topic related to the IIASA research agenda. The National Academies has a limited number of fellowships, funded by the National Science Foundation, to support travel and living expenses for successful YSSP applicants who are U.S. citizens or are eligible noncitizens enrolled in U.S. graduate programs.
Register here for the information session organized by IIASA for U.S. YSSP candidates to be held November 7, 11 AM ET.
Who should apply?
You should apply if:
- You are an advanced doctoral student, ideally 1-2 years from PhD degree.
- Your field of study complements the policy relevant, global change-oriented research at IIASA.
- You are interested in interdisciplinary research.
- You would like to apply your research to global challenges facing society.
- Your research and career would benefit from working alongside 50 young scientists, as well as senior researchers, from around the world.
IIASA’s work is organized in 6 Research Programs:
- Advancing Systems Analysis
- Economic Frontiers
- Biodiversity & Natural Resources
- Energy, Climate and Environment
- Population and Just Societies
- Strategic Initiatives
YSSP participants’ fields of research might include but are not limited to applied math and methodologies; earth, ocean, atmospheric, and hydrological sciences; engineering, data science and IT; remote sensing and citizen science; demography and sociology; operations research and management science; risk and decision science; climate science and integrated assessment, ecosystem sciences, forestry and agricultural systems; evolution and biodiversity; data analysis, programming, and GIS applications; political science, policy studies, international relations, and diplomacy; economics and natural capital accounting. IIASA does not do laboratory research.
Communication with the relevant program representatives is strongly recommended at the earliest possible stage, and before submitting an application.
For more information contact Ourania (Rania) Kosti, Director, Board on International Scientific Organizations, at okosti@nas.edu