Israeli Women’s Postdoctoral Award

We are now accepting applications for the 2025 Cohort.

Applications must be submitted via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/account2/signin?l=5477083803721088037).

It is the responsibility of the applicants to contact their references and ask them to send their support letter in pdf format to spap2025@easychair.org before the deadline. A committee of researchers from Israel and the US will review applications in this competitive selection process.

The deadline to apply is August 15, 2025.

For any questions related to the application process, please contact spap2025@easychair.org.
Questions about the program may be directed to israelpostdoc@schmidtsciences.org.

• Eligibility & Program Details

  Applicants should be women who plan to complete their PhDs at an Israeli University the subsequent year and would like to apply for a postdoctoral fellowship abroad for the following year. Applicants’ research must be in the areas of mathematics, computer science, industrial engineering, or electrical engineering. The fellowship is expected to start within a year of the award announcement, with a possibility of being awarded another grant of the same amount for a second year based on research progress and Program guidelines.
  
  Each award recipient will receive a grant of $60,000 upon beginning a postdoctoral or early career research fellowship in her discipline at and has relocated to a major institution outside of Israel. The award will only be made to women who accept an offer of a fellowship in her discipline outside of Israel within a year of the award announcement. Awards will then be paid at the start of their stay abroad. This award is intended as an income supplement (and not a replacement of the hosting institution stipend/salary) that should enable recipients to pursue and focus on their research while maintaining other obligations.

• Selection

  Recipients of the award will be announced in the fall of each year, in time to permit them to apply for appropriate fellowships abroad and reference the award on their applications.
  
  Approximately 10 women per year will be competitively selected for this award. An international committee of distinguished researchers assists in evaluating the applications and identifying the award recipients. The Selection Committee considers all applications and recommends a list of award recipients. The final decision is made by Schmidt Sciences and Eric and Wendy Schmidt.
  
  The current Selection Committee is composed of the distinguished researchers below:
  
  • Noga Alon, Princeton University
  • Shiri Artstein-Avidan, Tel Aviv University
  • Hagit Attiya, Technion
  • Ron Brachman, Cornell Tech
  • Michael Elhadad, Ben Gurion University
  • Michal Feldman, Tel Aviv University
  • Katrina Ligett, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • Stuart Feldman, Schmidt Sciences
  • Yoelle Maarek, Amazon Research
  • Elad Yom-Tov, Bar Ilan University
  • Lihi Zelnik-Manor, Technion

More than 60 women have been named Israeli Women’s Postdoctoral Laureates since the inception of the program in 2016.

•Daniella Bar-Lev
•Tamar Bar-On
•Nofar Carmeli
•Liron Cohen
•Liat Cohen
•Lee Cohen
•Shir Cohen Gahtan
•Esther Derman
•Rotem Dror
•Talya Eden
•Hadar Elor-Averbuch
•Shira Faigenbaum-Golovin
•Omrit Filtser
•Michal Friedman
•Shirly Geffen
•Mor Geva
•Adi Glucksam
•Gil Goffer
•Hila Gonen
•Rachel Greenfeld
•Pazit Haim-Kislev
•Adi Hanuka
•Esty Kelman
•Batya Kenig
•Sarah Keren
•Samah Khawaled
•Gal Kronenberg
•Shir Landau-Feibish
•Bracha Laufer-Goldshtein
•Alona Levy-Jurgenson
•Liat liatpeterfreund
•Ya-Wei Eileen Lin
•Nofar Mintz-Hemed
•Reuth Mirsky
•Efrat Muller
•Mor Nitzan
•Gali Noti
•Valentina Pyatkin
•Ella Rabinovich
•Noga H. Rotman
•Tamar Rott Shaham
•Shay Sadovsky
•Gal Sela
•Rana Shahout
•Mira Shalah
•Michal Shavit
•Clara Shikhelman
•Tal Shnitzer
•Vered Shwartz
•Dana Silverbush
•Nattalie Tamam
•Shira Tanny
•Sivan Trajtenberg-Mills
•Mor Vered
•Yael Vinker
•Gail Weiss
•Michal Yemini
•Brit Youngmann
•Noa Zychlinski