Beus Prize Fellowship

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Beus Prize Postdoctoral Fellowship

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 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

We are now accepting applications for the 2025 Beus Prize Fellowship!    Please view the position description and application instructions on Interfolio (position #156576).  Submit your materials by December 2, 2024 for full consideration.  You can contact Prof. Judd Bowman (judd.bowman@asu.edu) with any questions.

Current Fellows

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.

2023 - Christopher Cain (Ph.D. 2023, UC 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.