Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards

2021 Letters of Intent to Fund

The James S. McDonnell Foundation has awarded letters of intent to fund for the 2021 Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards in Understanding Dynamic and Multi-scale Systems to 11 applicants. Once an award has been activated the candidate's information will be posted here.

Named Candidate	Doctoral Institution	Postdoctoral Institution
William DeWitt	University of Washington	University of California-Berkeley
Mari Kawakatsu	Princeton University	University of Pennsylvania
Hungtang Ko	Georgia Institute of Technology	Princeton University
Jeff Lockhart	University of Michigan	University of Chicago
Anshuman Swain	University of Maryland - College Park	Harvard University

 

2020 Letters of Intent to Fund

The James S. McDonnell Foundation has awarded letters of intent to fund for the 2020 Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards in Understanding Dynamic and Multi-scale Systems to 9 applicants. Once an award has been activated the candidate's information will be posted here.

Named Candidate	Doctoral Institution	Postdoctoral Institution
Cody FitzGerald	University of Utah	Northwestern University
Yael Korem Kohanim	Weizmann Institute of Science	Yale University
Iacopo Iacopini	University of London	Central European University
Stefany Moreno-Gámez	University of Groningen	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alan Pacheco	Boston University	ETH Zurich
Anton Pichler	University of Oxford	Complexity Science Hub Vienna
Miles Wetherington	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile	Cornell University
Lucas Vargas Zeppetello	University of Washington	Harvard University

 

2019 Letters of Intent to Fund

The James S. McDonnell Foundation has awarded letters of intent to fund for the 2019 Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards in Understanding Dynamic and Multi-scale Systems to 9 applicants. Once an award has been activated the candidate's information will be posted here.

 

Named Candidate	Doctoral Institution	Postdoctoral Institution
Caitlin Cornell	University of Washington	University of California - Berkeley
Rita Maria del Rio Chanona	University of Oxford	Complexity Science Hub Vienna
Michelle Feng	University of California - Los Angeles	California Institute of Technology
Adela-Maria Isvoranu	University of Amsterdam	University of Amsterdam
Omer Karin	Weizmann Institute of Science	University of Cambridge
Artem Kaznatcheev	University of Oxford	University of Pennsylvania
Asher Leeks	University of Oxford	Yale University
Christopher Lynn	University of Pennsylvania	The City University of New York
Brandon Schlomann	University of Oregon	University of California - Berkeley

2018 Letters of Intent to Fund

The James S. McDonnell Foundation has awarded letters of intent to fund for the 2018 Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards in Understanding Dynamic and Multi-scale Systems to 11 applicants.

 

Named Candidate	Doctoral Institution	Postdoctoral Institution
Romain Frelat	University of Hamburg, Germany	Wageningen University, Netherlands
Katelyn Gostic	University of California - Los Angeles	University of Chicago
Marysa Laguë	University of Washington	University of California - Berkeley
Laura Maiorino	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sandeep Manjanna	McGill University	University of Pennsylvania
Haripriya Vaidehi Narayanan	Stanford University	University of California - Los Angeles
Marco Pangallo	University of Oxford	Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy
Predrag Popovic	University of Chicago	Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France
Handuo Shi	Stanford University	Stanford University School of Medicine
Felix Wong	Harvard University	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Katherine Xue	University of Washington, Seattle	Stanford University

2017 Letters of Intent to Fund

The James S. McDonnell Foundation has awarded letters of intent to fund for the 2017 Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards in Understanding Dynamic and Multi-scale Systems to 11 applicants.

 

Named Candidate	Doctoral Institution	Postdoctoral Institution
Talayeh Aledavood	Aalto University, Finland	University of Helsinki
Avik De	University of Pennsylvania	Harvard University
Graham Heimberg	University of California, San Francisco	The Broad Institute
Amanda Hund	University of Colorado at Boulder	University of Minnesota
Kabir Husain	National Centre for Biological Sciences, India	University of Chicago
Naghmeh Momeni	McGill University, Canada	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Rebekah Oomen	Dalhousie University, Canada	University of Oslo, Norway
Bertrand Ottino-Loffler	Cornell University, USA	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Fernando Santos	University of Lisbon, Portugal	Princeton University
Margaret Siple	University of Washington	University of California, Santa Barbara
Jean-Gabriel Young	Université Laval, Canada	University of Michigan

2016 Letters of Intent to Fund

The James S. McDonnell Foundation has awarded letters of intent to fund for the 2016 Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards in Studying Complex Systems to the following 10 applicants:

Named Candidate	Doctoral Institution
Sergey Belan	Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Karna Gowda	Northwestern University
Helen McCreery	University of Colorado Boulder
Jasmine Nirody	University of California, Berkeley
Mor Nitzan	The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Grant Rotskoff	University of California, Berkeley
Lauren Shoemaker	University of Colorado Boulder
Talia Tamarin	Weizmann Institute of Science
David Zeevi	Weizmann Institute of Science
Xianyuan Zhan	Purdue University

2015 Letters of Intent to Fund

The James S. McDonnell Foundation has awarded letters of intent to fund for the 2015 Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards in Studying Complex Systems to the following 9 applicants:

Named Candidate	Doctoral Institution
Allison K. Barner	Oregon State University
Yohai Bar-Sinai	Weizmann Institute of Science
Leonora Bittleston	Harvard University
Eleanor R. Brush	Princeton University
Peter Fennell	University of Limerick
Jean P. Gibert	University of Nebraska
Daniel Koll	University of Chicago
Clara Granell Martorell	Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Jeffrey C. Peters	Purdue University

2014 Letters of Intent to Fund

The James S. McDonnell Foundation has awarded letters of intent to fund for the 2014 Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards in Studying Complex Systems to the following 10 applicants:

Named Candidate	Doctoral Institution
Yi-Ju Chen	California Institute of Technology
Babak Fotouhi	McGill University
Albert Kao	Princeton University
Rémi Louf	Institut de Physique Theoique, CEA Saclay
Lisa O'Bryan	University of Minnesota
Shai Pilosof	Ben-Gurion University
Andrew Rhines	Harvard University
Maria Riolo	University of Michigan
Elizabeth Roberto	Yale University
Jakob Runge	Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

2013 Letters of Intent to Fund

The James S. McDonnell Foundation has awarded letters of intent to fund for the 2013 Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards in Studying Complex Systems to the following 10 applicants:

Named Candidate	Doctoral Institution
Charles Brummitt	University of California – Davis
Samuel Fey	Dartmouth College
Ambhighainath Ganesan	Johns Hopkins University
Martin Gould	University of Oxford
Laurent Hébert-Dufresne	Laval University
Christos Nicolaides	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Oren Raz	Weizmann Institute of Science
Michele Starnini	Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
Carolina Tropini	Stanford University
Amy Wesolowski	Carnegie Mellon University

2012 Letters of Intent to Fund

Named Candidate	Doctoral Institution
Lu Feng	University of Oxford
Elad Ganmor	Weizmann Institute of Science
Nick Gravish	Georgia Institute of Technology
Andrew Hein	University of Florida
Jonathan Karr	Stanford University
Elena Koslover	Stanford University
Shamim Nemati	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Adam Palmer	Harvard University
Michal Rabani	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michelle Wynn	University of Michigan – Ann Arbor

2011 Letters of Intent to Fund

Named Candidate	Doctoral Institution
Kyle Armour	University of Washington
Albert Barberán	Center of Advanced Studies
Mariano Begeurisse Diaz	Imperial College London
Silja Heilmann	Copenhagen University
Justin Meyer	Michigan State University
Armita Nourmohammad	University of Cologne
Shlomi Reuveni	Tel-Aviv University
Tonia Schwartz	Iowa State University
Roberta Sinatra	University of Catania
James Waters	Arizona State University