Postdoctoral Fellowships

To qualify for an Alberta Innovates Recruitment Fellowship, all fellows must:

• Have completed a PhD at the time of award implementation;
• Be an incoming postdoctoral appointee to one of the applicant institutions (i.e., the award term for a recruitment fellowship must start within the first six months of Fellows’ postdoctoral appointment);
• Have applied no more than once before for a fellowship from Alberta Innovates; and
• Have been shortlisted for funding consideration through any one of the following ways:
  • Scored among the top 15 per cent of fellows in a fellowship competition run by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, or the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (the “Tri-Agency”) for the proposed project.
  • Ranked outstanding in a university-based fellowship competition or triaging process.

To qualify for an Alberta Innovates Postdoctoral Fellowship, all fellows must:

• Have completed a PhD at the time of award implementation;
• Have accepted or started a postdoctoral appointment at one of the Applicant institutions;
• Be less than five years into a postdoctoral appointment at one of the Applicant institutions;
• Have applied no more than once before for a fellowship from Alberta Innovates; and
• Have been shortlisted for project relevancy review through any one of the following ways:
  • Scored among the top 25 per cent of Fellows in a Fellowship competition run by a member of the Tri-Agency.
  • Ranked excellent to outstanding in a university-based fellowship competition or triaging process.

To qualify for an Alberta Innovates Enhancement Fellowship, all fellows must:

• Have completed a PhD at the time of award implementation;
• Have accepted or started a postdoctoral appointment at one of the Applicant institutions;
• Be less than five years into a postdoctoral appointment at one of the Applicant institutions;
• Have applied no more than once before for a Fellowship from Alberta Innovates; and
• Have been shortlisted for project relevancy review through any one of the following ways:
  • Scored among the top 35 per cent of fellows in a fellowship competition run by a member of the Tri-Agency.
  • Ranked good to very good in a university-based fellowship competition.