Novo Nordisk Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023

The intention of the fellowship is to enable excellent young scientists to develop their own independent research area. Fellowships must be based at a university or other non-profit research institution in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, or Sweden.

Areas of Support

• The proposed research should address major challenges within plant, agricultural, and food science associated with developing sustainable agriculture and food production. The research should be fundamental in character with a clear and strategic outlook to improve sustainability and potential solutions.
• The proposed research should significantly extend existing knowledge beyond state of the art and may have a high-risk profile. The research should be based on life science research disciplines.
• Non-exclusive list of prioritized areas:
  • Development of plants with high productivity, resiliency, and resource use efficiency for food, fiber, materials, fuel and energy, chemicals, or climate change mitigation.
  • Development of agricultural, food, and forestry systems with higher productivity, circularity, and biodiversity, and with minimum impact on environment and climate.
  • Development of plant, microorganism, and fungi based foods with low resource use technologies and high functionality, organoleptic, and nutritional quality.
  • Development of methods and technologies, including those driven by data science, that enable and support sustainable agriculture and food production.

Funding Information

• The total annual budget for the Postdoctoral Fellowships within Plant Science, Agriculture and Food Biotechnology is up to DKK 20 million. Each grant can be up to DKK 800,000 per year for projects with duration of 1-3 years.
• For applicants currently based at a Nordic host institution who have not conducted research in another country, research activities in a laboratory in another country for at least 6 and maximum 24 months in total will be considered as a positive element for the postdoctoral training but is not a requirement.
• Note: At least 1 year must take place at the Nordic host institution. The duration of the fellowship should reflect the time frame of the research activities.

Eligibility Criteria

• An applicant must either:
  • Have a PhD or equivalent degree obtained within 6 years of the application deadline date, or
  • Be a PhD student who will defend her/his thesis before April 1, 2024. In this case, the PhD supervisor must confirm the expected defence date. The PhD degree must have been obtained before the Postdoc Fellowship can be activated.
• The application and any additional uploads must be written in English.

Ineligible

• NNF will not award funding for:
  • Commercial activities
  • Overhead
  • Double funding of projects:
    • If the applicant has received funding for parts of the project from other sources, in part or in full, this must be accounted for in the budget, as no budgetary overlaps are allowed.
    • If the applicant, after submission of the NNF application, receives funding for the project or parts of the applied project from others, NNF must be contacted as soon as possible.

For more information, visit Novo Nordisk Foundation.