Eligibility

• Applicants must have completed their doctoral degree within the past five years and no later than July 1, 2025.
• The primary criterion for selection is evidence of scholarship potentially competitive for tenure track appointments at a research university.
• A critical secondary criterion is the support of prospective departments.
• Please note that currently, only STEM fields as defined by NSF are supported by this fellowship (see list below)
• All applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents at the time of application. The University of North Carolina at Charlotte strongly encourages applications from African American, Native American and Latino/Hispanic scholars.
• Applicants should be interested in a career in academe and in working with and supporting students, faculty, and staff from all backgrounds and entries into the institution.
• Selection is contingent on the availability of an appropriate mentoring environment.

STEM fields (NSF designation)

CHEMISTRY

Artificial Intelligence
Chemical Catalysis
Chemical Measurement and Imaging
Chemical Structure, Dynamics, and Mechanism
Chemical Synthesis
Chemical Theory, Models and Computational Methods
Chemistry of Life Processes
Computationally Intensive Research
Environmental Chemical Systems
Macromolecular, Supramolecular, and Nanochemistry
Other (specify)
Quantum Information Science
Sustainable Chemistry

COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCES & ENGINEERING

Accessibility and Ethical Models and Impacts
Algorithms and Theoretical Foundations
Artificial Intelligence
Bioinformatics
Communication and Information Theory
Computationally Intensive Research
Computer Architecture
Computer Security and Privacy
Computer Systems and Embedded Systems
Computer Vision, Graphics, and Visualization
Databases, Data Mining, Data Science, and Information Retrieval
Formal Methods, Verification, and Programming Languages
Human Computer Interaction
Information Sciences
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Other (specify)
Parallel, Distributed, and Cloud Computing
Quantum Information Science
Robotics
Scientific Computing
Social Computing
Software Engineering
Wired and Wireless Networking

ENGINEERING

Aeronautical and Aerospace Engineering
Artificial Intelligence
Bioengineering
Biomedical Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Civil Engineering
Computationally Intensive Research
Computer Engineering
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Energy Engineering
Environmental Engineering
Industrial Engineering & Operations Research
Manufacturing Engineering
Materials Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Nuclear Engineering
Ocean Engineering
Optical Engineering
Other (specify)
Quantum Engineering
Quantum Information Science
Systems Engineering
Wireless Engineering

GEOSCIENCES

Aeronomy
Artificial Intelligence
Arctic-Antarctic
Atmospheric Chemistry
Biogeochemistry
Biological Oceanography
Chemical Oceanography
Climate and Large-Scale Atmospheric Dynamics
Computationally Intensive Research
Geobiology
Geochemistry
Geodynamics
Geomorphology
Geophysics
Glaciology
Hydrology
Magnetospheric Physics
Marine Biology
Marine Geology and Geophysics
Other (specify)
Paleoclimate
Paleontology and Paleobiology
Petrology
Physical and Dynamic Meteorology
Physical Oceanography
Quantum Information Science
Sedimentary Geology
Solar Physics
Tectonics

LIFE SCIENCES

Artificial Intelligence
Biochemistry
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Biophysics
Cell Biology
Computationally Intensive Research
Developmental Biology
Ecology
Environmental Biology
Evolutionary Biology
Genetics
Genomics
Microbial Biology
Neurosciences
Organismal Biology
Other (specify)
Physiology
Proteomics
Quantum Information Science
Structural Biology
Systematics and Biodiversity
Systems and Molecular Biology

MATERIALS RESEARCH

Artificial Intelligence
Biomaterials
Ceramics
Chemistry of Materials
Computationally Intensive Research
Electronic Materials
Materials Theory
Metallic Materials
Other (specify)
Photonic Materials
Physics of Materials
Polymers
Quantum Information Science

MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES

Algebra, Number Theory, and Combinatorics
Analysis
Applied Mathematics
Artificial Intelligence
Biostatistics
Computational and Data-enabled Science
Computational Mathematics
Computational Statistics
Computationally Intensive Research
Geometric Analysis
Logic or Foundations of Mathematics
Mathematical Biology
Other (specify)
Probability
Quantum Information Science
Statistics
Topology

PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY

Artificial Intelligence
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
Computationally Intensive Research
Condensed Matter Physics
Nuclear Physics
Other (specify)
Particle Physics
Physics of Living Systems
Plasma Physics
Quantum Information Science
Solid State Physics
Theoretical Physics

PSYCHOLOGY

Artificial Intelligence
Cognitive Neuroscience
Cognitive Psychology
Comparative Psychology
Computational Psychology
Computationally Intensive Research
Developmental Psychology
Industrial/Organizational Psychology
Neuropsychology
Other (specify)
Perception and Psychophysics
Personality and Individual Differences
Physiological Psychology
Psycholinguistics
Quantitative Psychology
Quantum Information Science
Social/Affective Neuroscience
Social Psychology

SOCIAL SCIENCES

Anthropology, other (specify)
Archaeology
Artificial Intelligence
Biological Anthropology
Communications
Computationally Intensive Research
Cultural Anthropology
Decision Making and Risk Analysis
Economics
Geography
History and Philosophy of Science
International Relations
Law and Social Science
Linguistic Anthropology
Linguistics
Medical Anthropology
Other (specify)
Political Science
Public Policy
Quantum Information Science
Science Policy
Sociology
Urban and Regional Planning

STEM EDUCATION AND LEARNING RESEARCH

Artificial Intelligence
Computationally Intensive Research
Engineering Education
Mathematics Education
Other (specify)
Quantum Information Science
Science Education
Technology Education