NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowships
- Award ceiling
- from $110,000
- Closes
- Oct 15, 2026
- Last verified
- 2026-09-04
Awards from $110,000 per recipient for others (see text field entitled "additional information on eligibility" for clarification), closing Oct 15, 2026.
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NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowships awards from $110,000 per recipient, open to others (see text field entitled "additional information on eligibility" for clarification), closing Oct 15, 2026.
- Program pool (total)
- $990,000Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
- Award ceiling (per project)
- Not confirmed
- Award floor
- $110,000
- Typical award
- Not confirmed
- Deadline
- Oct 15, 2026
- Deadline type
- Fixed date
- Opens
- Jul 27, 2022
- Status
- Open
- Eligible entities
- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
- Geography
- Not stated
- Matching funds
- Not confirmed
- Disbursement
- Not confirmed
- Application effort
- Not confirmed
- Use of funds
- Observational research · Instrumental research · Theoretical research · Laboratory research · Archival data research · Educational plan
- Currency
- USD
How much money is available?
Two different figures govern a programme and they are not interchangeable. The programme pool is what the funder has allocated across every award it will make this cycle. The award ceiling is the most one applicant can be granted.
Who can apply?
Not confirmed
Source field: applicant size limit*Who May Submit Proposals: Proposals may only be submitted by the following: - NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowships are awards to individuals; proposals are submitted directly by the fellowship candidate to NSF. Each proposer must identify one or more scientific mentor(s) and host institution(s) at the time of proposal submission. Prospective Fellows may propose to hold the fellowship at: <ul> <li>U.S. institutions of higher education,</li> <li>NSF-funded centers, facilities, orinstitutes,</li> <li>U.S. non-profit organizations with research and educational missions, or</li> <li>International sites that are operated by U.S. organizations eligible for NSF funding, such as the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, Cerro Tololo InterAmerican Observatory, or Gemini South.</li> </ul> National centers, facilities, sites, or institutes funded by other federal agencies, such as NASA or the U.S. Department of Energy, are ineligible as host institutions for the NSF AAPF Program. *Who May Serve as PI: Fellowships are awarded to individuals. The fellowship candidate submits their proposal directly to NSF. An individual is eligible to submit a proposal to the NSF AAPF Program if all of the following criteria are met: <ul> <li>The proposer is a citizen, national, or lawful permanent resident (Green Card Holder)of the United States.</li> <li>The proposer has earned the doctoral degree in an appropriate scientific field within five (5) years prior to the proposal submission deadline or will complete the doctoral degree by 1 October following the proposal deadline.</li> </ul> <span>By signing and submitting the proposal, the fellowship candidate is certifying that they meet the eligibility criteria specified in this program solicitation. Willful provision of false information in this request and its supporting documents or in reports required under an ensuing award is a criminal offense (U.S. Code, Title 18, Section 1001).</span>
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What can the money be used for?
6 categorysThe source’s own spending categories, and what is not parsed.
These categories come from the source's own classification. A line-item cost table, where the programme publishes one, lives in the guidelines and is not parsed for this record.
What comparable notices state
113 recordsStated ceilings on open records in the same industry.
Among open records stored under Science, Technology, Research & Development, 113 of 353 state an award ceiling. Those that do run:
- 25th percentile$500,000
- Median$1,500,000
- 75th percentile$5,000,000
A statistical estimate, not a prediction. It describes what a set of notices has published in this catalogue on the day you read it, and says nothing about what this programme will award. Records stating no ceiling are excluded rather than counted as zero, and the programme pool — what a funder has across every applicant — is a different column and is never mixed in.
Who has won this programme before?
1937 awardsAwards under the same assistance listing, not under this notice.
1937 federal awards on file under assistance listing 47.049, the programme this notice is published under. These are not awards made under this notice — a listing covers every year the programme runs, and awards under an open notice do not exist yet.
- $19,041,217ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITIES FOR RESEARCH IN ASTRONOMY, INC.CO · FY2026
- $9,800,000UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARACA · FY2025
- $9,500,000UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTINTX · FY2026
- $7,584,919ASSOCIATED UNIVERSITIES INCVA · FY2025
- $4,000,000UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISIL · FY2025
Common questions
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- How much can one applicant receive?
- From $110,000 per recipient.
- How much funding is available in total?
- $990,000 across the whole programme. This is the total the funder has allocated, not an amount any single applicant can receive.
- When is the application deadline?
- Oct 15, 2026.
- Who is eligible to apply?
- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification).
- What can the funding be used for?
- Observational research, Instrumental research, Theoretical research, Laboratory research, Archival data research, Educational plan, as classified by the source.
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