Beus Prize Fellowship

Beus Prize Fellowship

Fellowship Overview

The Beus Prize Fellowship program seeks to foster and support an inclusive community of early-career scientists who will lead the next great discoveries to better understand our place in the universe.  The Fellowship is offered annually to early-career researchers within four years of earning their Ph.D.  It is up to three years in duration and comes with a competitive salary currently of $79,500 (2024) with anticipated increases each year, an annual discretionary research budget over $15,000, and an allocation for moving expenses.   The Fellowship is open to observational and theoretical astrophysicists, discipline-based educational researchers, instrument builders, and engineers whose research aims to advance our knowledge of the formation and evolution of stars and galaxies, develop new instruments and techniques to study the cosmos, and/or enhance the societal impacts of this research.  

2025 Beus Prize Fellowship Applications

The deadline for full consideration has passed.  You can still view the position description and application instructions on Interfolio (position #156576).  Please contact Prof. Judd Bowman (judd.bowman@asu.edu) with any questions.

Status updates:  

  • January 20, 2025 - Shortlist formed
  • December 10, 2024 - Deadline to receive letters of recommendation for full consideration
  • December 3, 2024 - References for all candidates were contacted through Interfolio and asked to send letters by December 10
  • December 2, 2024 - Deadline for submission of application (with names only of three references) to receive full consideration

Current Fellows

 
Vince Estrada-Carpenter

2024 - Vincent Estrada-Carpenter
Ph.D. 2021, Texas A&M University

Dr. Estrada-Carpenter's work focuses on studying the spatially resolved properties of galaxies at Cosmic Noon using slitless spectroscopy from JWST.

Chris Cain

2023 - Christopher Cain
Ph.D. 2023, University of California, Riverside

As the inaugural Beus Prize Fellow, Dr. Cain's research addresses improvements in theoretical modeling of the epoch of reionization with a focus on small-scale processes in the intergalactic medium.