Dear All

These fellowships are great opportunities, so do think if they might work for you or anyone you know.

Best wishes

Nikolas

 

 

Dear Prof. Rose

 

ETH Zurich proudly hosts a prestigious program that provides funding for selected postdocs throughout the world for up to five years: The Branco Weiss Fellowship – Society in Science. It is with much pleasure that we would like to draw your attention to this truly unique fellowship, established with the generous donation of the late Branco Weiss.

 

The fellowship is international and trans-disciplinary in nature. It is open to postdocs with outstanding qualifications who are pursuing unusual projects on the frontier between society and science. Fellows are free to choose their host institution(s). Once a year in November a symposium is held at ETH Zurich to bring together all fellows.

 

We grant up to 10 fellowships out of about 600 applications. In the last years, the merit of the proposed projects in social sciences and humanities did not meet the standards of the selection committee. We do, however, strive towards a strong representation of the humanities in the fellowship. Therefore, we are taking the liberty to approach you directly in the hope that you will be able to draw attention to this opportunity among the postdocs in your institution.

 

Attached you find profiles of 5 fellows and also a presentation slide announcing the current call for applications with the deadline of January 15, 2019. We would appreciate it if you could also share this information with your colleagues.

 

More details can be found on our website: https://brancoweissfellowship.org/. If you have further questions please do not hesitate to contact the administrative team of The Branco Weiss Fellowship at [log in to unmask].

 

Best regards

 

Prof. Angelika Steger, Prof. Heidi Wunderli-Allenspach, Prof. Josef Zeyer

Directorate of The Branco Weiss Fellowship