Grant opportunity
Rowland Fellowship 2027
The Rowland Fellowship gives early-career experimental scientists and engineers the opportunity to establish independent research programmes at the Rowland Institute at Harvard.
- Funder
- Rowland Institute at Harvard
- Application deadline
- Application deadline: Aug 1, 2026
- Award
- Yearly operations budget starting at USD 225,000 plus salary, Harvard benefits, lab space, and start-up funding
- Applicant
- Early-career experimental scientists and engineers
- Discipline
- Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics
- Region
- Global / United States
- Posted
- May 24, 2026
Call summary
Overview
The Rowland Institute at Harvard seeks outstanding early-career experimentalists in science and engineering who can establish independent, creative research programmes in an interdisciplinary environment.
Who can apply
- Applicants should be completing a PhD or have received a PhD after 1 May 2025, and must complete the doctoral degree before starting the fellowship.
- The proposed research must be experimentally focused in science or engineering, including fields such as physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, and neuroscience.
- Applicants may come from accredited academic institutions in the United States or internationally, and both U.S. citizens and non-citizens are eligible.
What it supports
- Fellows receive principal investigator rights and establish labs in the Rowland Institute's interdisciplinary research environment.
- The fellowship supports high-risk, creative, boundary-crossing experimental research and provides mentoring, scientific writing support, budgeting support, and career development.
Funding and duration
Benefits include dedicated laboratory space, start-up funding for capital equipment, a yearly operations budget starting at USD 225,000, salary beginning at USD 89,999 per year, and full Harvard benefits.
Application deadline
Application deadline: Aug 1, 2026
How to apply
Applications must be submitted through the official Harvard Academic Positions posting by 1 August 2026 at 11:59 PM EDT.
Call details
About the opportunity
The Rowland Institute at Harvard seeks outstanding early-career experimentalists in science and engineering who can establish independent, creative research programmes in an interdisciplinary environment.
Rowland Institute at Harvard lists this opportunity for Early-career experimental scientists and engineers, Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics, Global / United States.
This listing is written for researchers, students, universities, NGOs, research teams, policy professionals and academic institutions searching for Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics grants, fellowships, scholarships, conferences, workshops and funding opportunities in Global / United States contexts.
Eligibility
Applicants should be completing a PhD or have received a PhD after 1 May 2025, and must complete the doctoral degree before starting the fellowship.
The proposed research must be experimentally focused in science or engineering, including fields such as physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, and neuroscience.
Applicants may come from accredited academic institutions in the United States or internationally, and both U.S. citizens and non-citizens are eligible.
Funding and benefits
Benefits include dedicated laboratory space, start-up funding for capital equipment, a yearly operations budget starting at USD 225,000, salary beginning at USD 89,999 per year, and full Harvard benefits.
Themes and supported activities
Fellows receive principal investigator rights and establish labs in the Rowland Institute's interdisciplinary research environment.
The fellowship supports high-risk, creative, boundary-crossing experimental research and provides mentoring, scientific writing support, budgeting support, and career development.
Deadline and timeline
Application deadline: Application deadline: Aug 1, 2026.
Applicants should confirm the exact deadline time, time zone, required documents, portal steps and any institutional approvals on the official call page before submitting.
How to apply
Applications must be submitted through the official Harvard Academic Positions posting by 1 August 2026 at 11:59 PM EDT.
Before applying, check eligibility rules, budgets, attachments, page limits, partner requirements, cost-share conditions and whether the opportunity uses an expression of interest, full proposal, registration or nomination stage.