CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars Program – Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (11/05/25)
Posted: 10/2/2025 ()
CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars Program
Organization: Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
Award amount: $72,000
Deadline: 11/05/2025
Description:
The CIFAR Global Scholars Program offers early-career researchers the opportunity to develop and lead high-risk, high-reward interdisciplinary research, expand their professional networks and receive focused leadership training in their pivotal first years as independent investigators. These experiences accelerate the rise of research leaders who are positioned to drive new discoveries and open new fields of inquiry.
CIFAR welcomes applications from candidates across the natural, biomedical, and social sciences, as well as the humanities. Successful applicants join one of CIFAR’s interdisciplinary research programs, collaborating with global research leaders to advance transformative knowledge and address some of the most important questions facing science and humanity.
In 2025/2026, the following CIFAR research programs are accepting applications:
- Child & Brain Development
- CIFAR MacMillan Multiscale Human
- Future Flourishing
- Humanity’s Urban Future
- Learning in Machines & Brains
- Quantum Materials
CIFAR programs are interdisciplinary, with an objective to spark new ideas, collaborations and knowledge advances. We welcome applications that offer new perspectives or approaches that could enrich and diversify a program’s scope.
Eligibility:
Early-career, Faculty & Pls