Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
- Award ceiling
- from $190,000
- Closes
- Oct 21, 2026
- Last verified
- 2026-09-04
Awards from $190,000 per recipient for others (see text field entitled "additional information on eligibility" for clarification), closing Oct 21, 2026.
In one sentence
Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships awards from $190,000 per recipient, open to others (see text field entitled "additional information on eligibility" for clarification), closing Oct 21, 2026.
- Program pool (total)
- $8,500,000Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
- Award ceiling (per project)
- Not confirmed
- Award floor
- $190,000
- Typical award
- Not confirmed
- Deadline
- Oct 21, 2026
- Deadline type
- Fixed date
- Opens
- Jul 14, 2023
- 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
- Research in mathematics and statistics · Research support in postdoctoral environments
- 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: - The Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships are awards to individuals, and proposals are submitted directly by the fellowship proposer to NSF. Fellows must affiliate with institutions or organizations(e.g., Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs), government and national laboratories and facilities,privately sponsored nonprofit institutes and museums, and for-profit organizations under certain conditions). *Who May Serve as PI: An individual is eligible to submit a proposal to this program if all the following criteria are met: <ul> <li>Must, at the time of submission, be a U.S. citizen, U.S. national, or a legally admitted permanent resident alien of the United States;</li> <li>May not have held the doctoral degree more than 2 years as of January 1 of the year of the award;</li> <li>Must propose research inan area of mathematics or statistics;</li> <li>May not have previously been a principal investigator or co-principal investigator of an NSF award (other than a graduate research fellowship <span>or an award in support of a conference or workshop</span>);</li> <li>May not submit a research plan duplicated in another NSF proposal;</li> <li>Must not have previously been offered an award by the MSPRF program; and</li> <li>Must have a doctoral degree conferred before the postdoctoral appointment start date.</li> </ul> Proposals that fail to meet the above eligibility requirements will be returned without review. 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).
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What can the money be used for?
2 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 $190,000 per recipient.
- How much funding is available in total?
- $8,500,000 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 21, 2026.
- Who is eligible to apply?
- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification).
- What can the funding be used for?
- Research in mathematics and statistics, Research support in postdoctoral environments, as classified by the source.
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