This program supports individuals with high potential to re-enter an active research career after an interruption for family responsibilities. To qualify, candidates must have been in a postdoctoral or faculty position at the time their active research career was interrupted. The duration of the career interruption should be at least one year and no more than eight years. Examples of qualifying interruptions include a complete or partial hiatus from research activities for child rearing; an incapacitating illness or injury of the candidate, spouse, partner, or a member of the immediate family; or relocation to accommodate a spouse, partner, or other close family member.

The program is not intended to support additional graduate training and is not intended to support career changes from non-research to research careers for individuals without prior research training. The candidate may be in complete or partial hiatus from research activities at the time of application, and should not be engaged in full-time paid research activities. The candidate need not occupy a tenured or tenure-track position, but the most compelling applications will present a plan to continue with research activities beyond the period of the fellowship.

The RIF will participate fully in the thematic program, in the expectation that this will allow her or him to enhance her or his research capabilities and to establish or re-establish a career as a productive, competitive researcher. The candidate is expected to participate full-time in the program. The award is to be held at the Fields Institute, but there are no restrictions on the nationality or country of employment of the re-entry candidate. The program has the dual goals of increasing women’s participation in mathematical research world-wide and of boosting thematic programs at Fields by the inclusion of additional long-term participants.

For programs in a given program year (which runs July to June) the closing date will be August 31 of the year before. A later application deadline, February 28, 2009, is set for the programs in 2009-2010, but applications will be accepted until the fellowship position is filled.

Please submit a cover sheet indicating your interest, a CV, a research proposal and include the name/s of faculty who will be
participating in the Thematic Program who may be appropriate as supervisors/research advisors.
Application should be sent be email to:
Director : director@fields.utoronto.ca
Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences