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The Foundation's Prize

Caution : the 2010 call for application to the Foundation's Prize is closed - Next one at the end of 2010

 

For the academic year 2010-2011, the Foundation Sciences Mathématiques de Paris offers one professorship-level position to a young mathematician from France or abroad. The awardee will also receive a financial prize of €10.000 to reward his scientific excellence.

To know awardees, please clic here.

 

Eligibility criteria

Mathematicians of all research disciplines (pure and applied), of French or foreign citizenship, who are at the level of “Associate Professor” or “Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches” are eligible, with the exception of those who are members of a laboratory affiliated to the Foundation.
All mathematical disciplines (pure and applied) are welcome.

The selection will be based on excellence in scientific accomplishment. The jury is composed by eminents mathematicians (clic here for more details).

Contract conditions of the awardee

The awardee will be offered a twelve (12) months work contract and a net salary of € 2,500.00 per month; he will thus benefit from health insurance and social coverage. Accommodation is offered by the Foundation and a research budget of €5,000 is also provided.

The awardee will carry out research in one of the laboratories affiliated to the Foundation. The selected candidate will also be required to give a total of twenty hours of doctorate-level lectures at the IHP (Institut Henri Poincaré) in Paris

About the awardee’s distinguished lecture Sciences Mathématiques de Paris

The awardee will give a total of twenty hours of doctorate-level lectures at the Institut Henri Poincaré in Paris.

The Prize

In addition, the awardee will receive a financial prize of €10,000 offered by the French bank Crédit du Nord.

How to apply

If you are interested in applying for the Foundation’s Award, please send us the following documents:

The files should be attached as a pdf-file.

How to transmit your application

In order to be considered, you need to send:

a)registered on-line via this Web site

AS WELL AS

b)three copies of your full* application by post to:
Fondation Sciences Mathématiques de Paris
Institut Henri Poincaré
“The Foundation’s Award 2010”
11 rue Pierre et Marie Curie
F- 75231 Paris Cedex 05 (FRANCE)

*)The full application consists all the documents listed above.

Deadline for submission of applications

Your full application ought to have been transmitted to the Foundation by electronic mail and by snail mail no later than January 24th, 2010, midnight (Paris time).


Contact information

For further information, please send a message to:Contact “The Foundation’s Award 2010”.