Office of Research
Renewable Energy: Ensuring a Sustainable and Fair Transition
The AXA Research Fund’s mission is to support outstanding researchers and it is committed to improving peoples’ lives through innovative research in areas of Climate & Environment, Health, and Socioeconomics.
The Fellowship topic is “Renewable Energy: Ensuring a sustainable and fair transition”. Eight Postdoctoral researchers addressing issues geared towards building a more sustainable and inclusive route to Net-Zero by 2050 based on renewable energies will be supported, once selected by the AXA Research Fund Scientific Board at the end of the application process.
The research program should demonstrate its scientific originality and innovative nature and have the potential to contribute to a step change in the considered field. It is the applicant’s responsibility to demonstrate the relevance of the proposed research topic to the AXA Research Fund.
Diversity will be an important criterion in the selection process, as applied to the research topic, gender and geography.
Eligibility Requirements
Candidates should be of the highest caliber and have demonstrated outstanding research achievements, as evidenced by the usual indicators for assessing academic excellence such as research outputs (e.g., publications, citations), research activities (e.g., organizing networks, being involved in communities) and research impact (e.g., policy reports, specific recognition through awards, etc.).
AXA Fellowships aim at supporting promising early-career researchers who have been holding a PhD no longer than five years. Candidates must be awarded their PhD before they submit their Expression of Interest. Candidates must have already defended their PhD certification before applying.
Application Instructions
Pre-Proposal Instructions:
Please submit:
- A one‐page letter of intent with a description of proposed aims and approach.
- If the final application requires a diversity statement or statement of broader impacts, please summarize your plans to address the specific requirements on an additional page.
- CV (not biosketch) of the PI.
to limitedsubs@uw.edu by 5:00 PM Friday, May 5, 2023. The sponsor deadline for "expression of interest" is 5/15/2023 if given the go‐ahead by the Limited Submissions review committee.
Inquiries and Contact Information
Investigators who identify a grant, award or fellowship program that restricts the number of applications that can be submitted from an Institution should immediately contact their Chairperson, Associate Dean for Research (or Dean, if no ADR) and the Office of Research (see below) if they intend to prepare a response. Failure to do so, or to meet the deadlines for submission of pre-proposal, will preclude submission of the application through the Office of Sponsored Programs.
For general inquiries, or to request a listing of a limited submission opportunity that should be but is not already listed, please email us at limitedsubs@uw.edu.