Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

As part of the Simons Foundation mission to advance the frontiers of research in mathematics and the basic sciences, we are committed to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion across the foundation and the broader scientific community.

DEI Programs

Fellows-to-Faculty Award

Eligibility - Postdoc/Early Career, Investigators

Deadline - January 14, 2025

In order to advance the frontiers of research in science, the Simons Foundation’s Autism & Neuroscience division recognizes the need for diverse ideas and perspectives that contribute to the scientific enterprise. We offer the Fellows-to-Faculty Award program to identify scientists with extraordinary potential to advance our scientific areas of interest and nurture greater diversity in our scientific community.

Simons Early Career Investigator in Aquatic Microbial Ecology and Evolution Awards

A microbial community around a marine diatom (in white). Motile bacteria (their tracks are in blue) accumulate near the diatom to utilise organic matter leaking from it.

Eligibility - Investigators

Deadline - January 23, 2025

This program was titled “Early Career Investigator in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution Awards” from 2015-2022.

The purpose of these awards is to help launch the careers of outstanding investigators in the fields of microbial ecology, microbial biogeochemistry and/or microbial evolution in marine or natural freshwater systems, who will advance our understanding through field work, experiments, modeling or theory. Investigators must currently be active in basic research addressing fundamental questions in these fields and must focus a large fraction of their lab’s effort in one of these areas. Applicants whose research focuses on the microbiomes of animals or plants, symbioses of microbes with animals, coral biology, paleoceanography, geobiology or aquatic pollution will not be considered.

Simons Dissertation Fellowship in Mathematics

Eligibility - Graduate Students

Deadline - March 31, 2025

The Simons Foundation’s Mathematics and Physical Sciences (MPS) division invites applications for the new Simons Dissertation Fellowship in Mathematics to provide research support to excellent graduate students in the final years of their Ph.D. studies. This program has been created to honor the work of our late founder, Jim Simons, and his commitment to supporting the field of mathematics.

Contact

The Simons Foundation is committed to grantmaking that inspires and supports greater diversity and inclusiveness.

For more information, please email [email protected].

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