Brief Description:

The Visiting Scholars Program is designed to bring diverse researchers to the Center for 1-12 weeks and make them an integral part of our community. We want to make sure that bright people from all different backgrounds wrestle with the most exciting biological questions and get the support they need to pursue these questions. Visiting Scholars will take part in Center activities, including seminars, lab meetings, lunches, workshops, and symposia for the duration of their visit. Visitors will have the opportunity to interact with faculty, postdocs, and graduate students across science and engineering departments at Harvard and at other local institutions. Scholars are expected to learn as much as they can, talk to as many people as they can, and help make our Center better.

Description:

We now welcome applications to the Visiting Scholars Program at the NSF-Simons Center for Center for Mathematical & Statistical Analysis of Biological Systems at Harvard University. We are particularly interested in welcoming early-career researchers (graduate students or postdocs) who are excited to (a) learn about ongoing research across the life, physical, mathematical, statistical, or engineering sciences and (b) dream up new research programs at the interface between these disciplines.

Us: Our Center is a large community working across departments and disciplines to answer the most fundamental questions about the nature of living things. How do living things build themselves from non-living material? How do they grow, divide or develop? How do molecules, cells, or populations adapt and evolve? How do we build tools to capture these behaviors? How do we build models which explain and ultimately predict these behaviors? These questions are too complicated to solve alone. We also think they are more fun to solve together.

The program: The Visiting Scholars Program is designed to bring diverse researchers to the Center for 1-12 weeks and make them an integral part of our community, now and for the rest of their careers. We want to make sure that bright people from all different backgrounds wrestle with the most exciting biological questions and get the support they need to pursue these questions. Visiting Scholars will take part in Center activities, including seminars, lab meetings, lunches, workshops, and symposia, for the duration of their visit. Visitors will have the opportunity to interact with faculty, postdocs, and graduate students across science and engineering departments at Harvard and at other local institutions. Scholars are expected to learn as much as they can, talk to as many people as they can, and help make our Center better.

You: We are interested in hosting scholars who bring new perspectives to the Center. In particular, we would like to host early-career researchers who would enjoy the opportunity to engage with projects across the life, physical, mathematical, statistical, or engineering sciences. Preference will be given to applicants who are creative, open-minded, willing to learn about new fields, unafraid to ask questions, and have a demonstrated track record of enhancing the quality and success of their community. Scholars with no previous affiliation to Harvard are strongly encouraged to apply.

Application Information:

Applications should include:

Brief (1-page) description of your research, written in a manner accessible to a multidisciplinary science & engineering community who are not experts in your field.

For early-career researchers: We are less interested in what you have done already than what you could do in the future. Give us a sense of what questions you find most exciting, what type of work you have done, and what type of work you would like to do in an ideal world. We want to help you reach these goals.

Brief (1-page) description of your intended program of study at the Center and what you would contribute to our community

For early-career researchers: We want you to arrive as visitors and leave as colleagues. Give us a sense of why you would benefit from being here: Are there fields you’d like to learn about, people you’d like to talk to, techniques you’d like to learn? Let us know how you would help us: How would you make our Center more interesting, more fun, and more successful? How would you help us make science better, both now and in the future?

CV/Resume

Proposed time frame of visit: Please list potential dates of your visit and proposed duration (1-12 weeks)

List of references. Please list at least 2 references we could contact.

Eligibility Criteria:

Scholars must be affiliated with an accredited university. Graduate students, postdocs, researchers, and faculty are all eligible to apply.

Please note that currently we are only able to accept applications for visits of exactly 12 week duration for potential visiting scholars who require a US Visa.

Review Criteria:

Visiting Scholars will be selected based on their potential to enhance our community. Preference will be given to early-career researchers. Preference will be given to applicants who can contribute new perspectives to our community and who have a demonstrated track-record of leaving a positive impact on their community.

Additional Information, Related Websites, and Proxy Instructions:

This application has a rolling deadline and applications are reviewed on a regular basis.

Please https://quantbio.harvard.edu/mathbio for more information.

For questions about this application, please contact us at quantbio@harvard.edu.

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Institution

Other (Non Harvard) Institution

Position

Graduate Student
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Associate Professor
Professor
Other Academic/Research Appointment

Type of Competition

Harvard Internal Funding

Discipline

Basic Science
Environmental Science
Engineering
Life Science
Multidisciplinary
Physical Science

Type of Award

Visiting Personnel