Accelerate your career. Transform your research. Expand your impact. The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) Global Scholars Program offers a unique opportunity to take your research further, faster. Collaborate across disciplines with leading global researchers. Grow your network and pursue high-risk, high-reward ideas with flexible research support. Join an international community of extraordinary minds working to address humanity’s biggest problems, together.
CIFAR welcomes applications from junior faculty in the natural, biomedical, and social sciences, as well as the humanities, who are in the pivotal first five years of their independent research careers.
Successful applicants become part of one of CIFAR’s interdisciplinary research programs, collaborating with global research leaders to advance transformative knowledge and tackle some of the most important questions facing science and humanity.
The programs accepting applications this year are:
Child & Brain Development
CIFAR MacMillan Multiscale Human
Future Flourishing
Humanity’s Urban Future
Learning in Machines & Brains
Quantum Materials
We invite you to share this opportunity with potential applicants in your networks. For details, please visit cifar.ca/global-scholars.
Apply by November 5, 2025
CIFAR Global Scholars receive:
A two-year opportunity to collaborate and receive mentorship within a close-knit, interdisciplinary network of leading global researchers in a CIFAR research program.
$100,000 CAD in unrestricted research support.
Opportunities to apply for CIFAR seed funds.
Membership in the extended community of CIFAR Global Scholars, a network of creative and like-minded peers across cohorts.
Targeted training in essential areas of research leadership.
Who is eligible:
CIFAR welcomes applicants from all countries and is committed to building a diverse, international community of scholars
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