TWAS, the academy of sciences for the developing world, www.twas.org, is
now accepting applications for its postgraduate, postdoctoral, visiting
scholars and advanced research fellowship programmes.
The fellowships are offered to scientists from developing countries and
are tenable at centres of excellence in various countries in the South,
including Brazil, China, India, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, Pakistan and
Thailand.
Two new programmes with Iran and Pakistan are launched this year, with
the Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology (IROST) and
the National Centre for Physics (NCP).
Eligible fields of the different programmes include one or more of the
following: agricultural and biological sciences, medical and health
sciences, chemistry, engineering, astronomy, space and earth sciences,
mathematics and physics.
Please see http://twas.ictp.it/prog/exchange/fells/fells-overview for
the latest information regarding all these programmes, including
eligibility criteria, deadlines, etc, and to download the application
forms and guidelines.
Women scientists are especially encouraged to apply.