Harvard University Environmental Fellows Program 2025 ($90,000 per Annum)

Applications are currently invited for the Harvard University Environmental Fellows Program 2025. The fellowship, which is open to talented scholars across the globe with an interest in environmental research, is a fully funded study opportunity in the United States and includes a salary of $90,000 per year plus other benefits.

Harvard Center for the Environment (HUCE) created the Environmental Fellows program to enable recent doctorate recipients to use and expand Harvard’s extraordinary resources to tackle complex environmental issues. Fellows work for two years with Harvard faculty members in any school or department to form a community of researchers that strengthens connections across the University.

SUMMARY

Fellowship Sponsor(s): Harvard Center for the Environment

Host Institution(s): Harvard University

Funding Amount: $90,000 per year

Number of Awards: 6 slots

Study Level: Post Doctoral

Nationality: All Nationalities

Eligibility Criteria | Harvard University Environmental Fellows Program 2025

The eligibility criteria for the Harvard University Environmental Fellows Program 2025 in USA are as follows:

• Open to anyone with a doctorate or comparable terminal degree awarded between May 2021 and August 2025. (Fellows must have filed their dissertation before starting their appointment in September 2025.)
• Candidates with a doctorate or equivalent in any field are eligible, and they may propose research projects in any discipline. Applicants without a PhD may apply if they have studied in fields where the PhD is not the typical terminal degree. All successful candidates will be able to demonstrate experience performing scholarly research.
• Candidates may have received their degrees at any university in the world. Foreign nationals are eligible for fellowships, though study at Harvard generally requires proficiency in English.
• Successful candidates should be prepared to commit to work at Harvard for the full two years of the fellowship.

Program Benefits

The fully funded Harvard University Environmental Fellows Program in USA includes the following benefits:

• salary of $90,000 per year
• employee health insurance eligibility
• up to $2,500 reimbursement for relocation expenses
• $2,500 annual allowance for travel and other professional expenses.

Application Procedure

How-to-Apply: Interested and eligible applicants for Harvard University Environmental Fellows Program 2025 should please complete an online application through the official website (link below), and attach the following relevant supporting documents in PDF format:

Curriculum vitae including list of publications

Research proposal; where applicants should explain their specific reasons for applying to a Harvard residential environmental fellowship (maximum of five pages, excluding references). NOTE: While applicants should discuss the proposal with their potential faculty hosts, the final product should clearly be the work of the applicant

Three publications/writing samples.

Three letters of reference, including one from the applicant’s dissertation adviser.

A letter of support is also required from the applicant’s host committing to serve as a mentor and explaining his or her commitment to the proposed research, including the provision of office or lab space. Applicants are encouraged to ask their hosts to email letters of reference as PDFs or, if necessary, as Word documents attached to the emails. Hosts also have extra time after the deadline (January 23, 2025) to submit letters and should send them directly to the attention of Cayla Jett at the Center at environmental_fellows@harvard.edu.

Visit the Official Website for Further Details
Application Deadline: January 13, 2025