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Simons Foundation

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  1. Simons Symposia

    The Simons Foundation’s Mathematics and Physical Sciences division invites proposals for Simons Symposia series beginning in 2028, supporting up to three weeklong meetings held biennially for collaboration among mathematicians, theoretical physicists, and theoretical computer scientists.

    Workshop/ConferenceMathematics and Physical Sciences

    Deadline
    Amount
    Not listed

  2. Targeted Grants to Institutes

    The Simons Foundation’s Mathematics and Physical Sciences division offers Targeted Grants to Institutes to strengthen established institutes’ and centers’ international scientific connections in mathematics and theoretical basic physical sciences.

    Research ProjectMathematics and theoretical basic physical sciences

    Deadline
    Amount
    $750,000

  3. Simons Fellows in Mathematics

    The Simons Foundation’s Mathematics and Physical Sciences division offers Simons Fellowships in Mathematics to extend eligible faculty members’ sabbaticals to a full academic year devoted to theoretical mathematics research.

    FellowshipMathematics

    Deadline
    Amount
    $162,000

  4. Solar Radiation Management

    The Simons Foundation’s Mathematics and Physical Sciences division invites applications for three-year Solar Radiation Management grants supporting fundamental research on environmentally benign materials, laboratory characterization, atmospheric turbulence, and climate modeling related to SAI, MCB, and CCT.

    Research ProjectClimate science and atmospheric science

    Deadline
    Letter of intent
    Amount
    $1,500,000

  5. Simons Centers of Excellence at Historically Black Colleges and Universities

    The Simons Foundation, through Simons Foundation International, will fund up to two Centers of Excellence at HBCUs to advance computational, data-driven, and theoretical research and expand pathways to graduate STEM programs in mathematics, physics, and ecology and evolutionary biology.

    Research ProjectMathematics, Physics, and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

    Deadline
    Letter of intent
    Amount
    $7,500,000

  6. Simons Historically Black Colleges and Universities Faculty Fellowship

    The Simons Foundation, funded by Simons Foundation International, will provide up to five accredited HBCU institutions with $1.6 million over five years to support junior faculty fellowships in mathematics, physics, and ecology and evolutionary biology.

    FellowshipMathematics, physics, and ecology & evolutionary biology

    Deadline
    Letter of intent
    Amount
    $1,600,000

  7. Simons Collaborations in Mathematics and the Physical Sciences

    The Simons Foundation’s Mathematics and Physical Sciences division offers Simons Collaborations grants to advance fundamental scientific questions in mathematics, theoretical physics, and theoretical computer science through highly collaborative research teams.

    Collaboration/Cooperative AgreementMathematics, theoretical physics, and theoretical computer science

    Deadline
    Letter of intent
    Amount
    $2,000,000

  8. CCQ Graduate Scholars Program

    The Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Quantum Physics (CCQ), in partnership with CUNY, Columbia, NYU and SISSA, offers named graduate scholarships to support PhD students conducting research in areas of interest to CCQ.

    ScholarshipPhysics (Condensed Matter; Computational Quantum Physics)

    Deadline
    Not listed
    Amount
    Not listed

  9. Fellows-to-Faculty Award

    The Simons Foundation’s Fellows-to-Faculty Award provides up to five years of support for fellows transitioning to independent faculty positions and establishing research programs.

    FellowshipBasic science and mathematics

    Deadline
    Not listed
    Amount
    $820,000

  10. Fellows-to-Faculty Award

    The Simons Foundation’s Fellows-to-Faculty Award provides up to five years of support for fellows transitioning to independent faculty careers.

    FellowshipBasic Science and Mathematics

    Deadline
    Not listed
    Amount
    $820,000

  11. Fellows-to-Faculty Award

    The Simons Foundation’s Autism & Neuroscience division offers the Fellows-to-Faculty Award to help talented early-career scientists transition from mentored postdoctoral positions into tenure-track research faculty roles, providing end-of-postdoc support, career-development activities, community engagement, and a $600,000 USD three-year faculty research grant.

    Post-doctoralNeuroscience

    Deadline
    Not listed
    Amount
    $600,000

  12. New Ideas Award (SFARI) — rolling RFA for early-stage exploratory autism/NDD research

    The Simons Foundation’s Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) provides grant programs to support bold, imaginative, and rigorous research on autism and related neurodevelopmental disorders through standing RFAs—most notably the rolling New Ideas Award for exploratory projects, Pilot Awards for high‑risk/high‑reward studies, Fellows‑to‑Faculty Awards (three‑year $600,000 grants) to support transitions to tenure‑track, and the SURFiN undergraduate fellowship—plus periodic ad‑hoc targeted RFAs.

    Research ProjectNeuroscience

    Deadline
    Not listed
    Amount
    Not listed

  13. SCPAB Research Awards – 2020 Extension RFA

    The Simons Foundation’s Simons Collaboration on Plasticity and the Aging Brain (SCPAB) offers invited two-year extension awards to expand previously funded research on mechanisms of resilience, maintenance, and plasticity in the aging brain.

    Research Project

    Deadline
    Not listed
    Amount
    $375,000

  14. Shenoy Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Neuroscience (SURFiN)

    The Simons Foundation’s Autism & Neuroscience division sponsors the Shenoy Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Neuroscience (SURFiN), which provides funding for paid undergraduate research assistantships in Simons-supported laboratories in the U.S., Canada, and Europe to expand access to hands-on neuroscience research.

    FellowshipNeuroscience

    Deadline
    Not listed
    Amount
    Not listed

  15. SPARK Research Match Expansion — Request for Applications

    The Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) offers the SPARK Research Match Expansion Request for Applications to enhance research participation among individuals from undersampled genetic ancestries in autism studies.

    Research ProjectHealth

    Deadline
    Not listed
    Amount
    $10,000

  16. Targeted Grants in MPS

    The Simons Foundation's Mathematics and Physical Sciences (MPS) division offers Targeted Grants in MPS to support high-risk, theoretically focused projects in mathematics, physics, and computer science with exceptional promise and scientific importance.

    Research ProjectMathematics, Physics, Computer Science

    Deadline
    Not listed
    Amount
    $5,000,000
2 closed programsDeadline passed before Sep 21, 2026

  1. Junior Fellows of the Simons Society of Fellows

    Closed
    Amount
    $112,799

  2. Junior Fellows of the Simons Society of Fellows

    Closed
    Amount
    $112,799

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