Details
| Opportunity Name | Early Career Investigator in Aquatic Microbial Ecology and Evolution Awards |
| Agency | Simons Foundation |
| Value | $270,000/year (USD) |
| Indirect Costs | Eligible at 20% |
| Duration | 2 years |
Deadlines
Letter of Intent (LOI)
| LOI due to FSc RO at sciapps@yorku.ca for full review | 01-09-2025 |
| LOI and fully signed ORS checklist due to FSc RO at sciapps@yorku.ca for mandatory review | 01-16-2025 |
| LOI and fully signed ORS checklist due at ORS for mandatory review | 01-21-2025, by 9:00AM |
| LOI due at agency | 01-23-2025, by 12:00PM (noon) |
Full application (by invitation only)
| Application due to FSc RO at sciapps@yorku.ca for full review | 04-17-2025 |
| Application and fully signed ORS checklist due to FSc RO at sciapps@yorku.ca for mandatory review | 04-24-2025 |
| Final application and fully signed ORS checklist due at ORS for mandatory review | 04-29-2025, by 9:00AM |
| Application due at agency | 05-01-2025 |
Objective
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.
Eligibility
Applicants must hold a Ph.D. or equivalent degree. They must currently hold a tenure-track, tenured or, for institutions with no tenure track, an equivalent independent position in an institution in the U.S. or Canada (in a campus within these countries) and have carried out research in such a position starting no earlier than November 2020 and no later than July 2024.
How to Apply
York University researchers are reminded that all applications for external research funding, including Letters of Intent, must be reviewed and approved by the Office of Research Services before they are submitted to the granting agency. For internal approval, the application must be accompanied by a completed ORS Checklist, which requires the Dean’s signature. Please send the complete application, with the finalized budget and a completed ORS checklist to sciapps@yorku.ca, five days prior to agency deadline.
ORS is accepting electronic applications – the process is outlined here.