Funding Areas



Understanding Dynamic & Multi-scale Systems

Legacy Program:   Understanding Dynamic & Multi-scale Systems

The Understanding Dynamic & Mutli-scale Systems program (formerly the Studying Complex Systems) supports scholarship and research directed toward the development of theoretical and mathematical tools that can be applied to the study of complex, adaptive, nonlinear systems. It is anticipated that research funded in this program will address issues in fields such as biology, biodiversity, climate, demography, epidemiology, technological change, economic development, governance, or computation. While the program's emphasis is on the development and application of theoretical models used in these research fields and not on particular fields per se, JSMF is particularly interested in projects attempting to apply complex systems approaches to meaningful problems. Proposals attempting to apply complex system tools and models to problems where such approaches are not yet considered usual or mainstream (for example, differentiating normal physiology from disease) are encouraged.

For Postdoctoral Fellowships, proposals furthering the science of complex systems and/or proposals intending to apply complex system tools and models to problems where such approaches are not yet considered usual or mainstream are appropriate.


Grants Available in this Program Area

 

Postdoctoral Fellowship

Status: Inactive (Legacy Program)
(Last deadline to apply was June 11, 2021)

Amount: $200,000 
Duration: 2-3 years
Eligibility: Ph.D. students within 18 months of anticipated completion of graduate training. No geographic restrictions.

 


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