SIAM Science Policy Fellowship Program
The SIAM Science Policy Fellowship Program develops post-doctoral fellows and early career researchers into strong advocates for U.S. federal support in applied mathematics and computational and data science. Three to five fellowship recipients will be selected each year to serve two-year terms.
Application Deadline: November 1, 2024
About the Fellowship
The SIAM Science Policy Fellowship Program enables participants to gain in-depth knowledge of the policy processes that determine science funding and policy decisions while still pursuing their research and teaching. Fellowship recipients will receive training and guidance on how to effectively communicate with federal officials and congressional staff. Participants will also learn about important legislative issues as well as the federal budget and appropriations process. Training will occur both in-person at the SIAM Committee on Science Policy Meetings as well as remotely. Fellowship recipients will play an important role representing the industrial and applied mathematics community to policy-makers in Washington, D.C.
Fellowship Responsibilities
- Attend 2-day SIAM Committee on Science Policy meetings held during the spring and fall each year
- Participate in training webinars on key budget and policy issues
- Meet with lawmakers, legislative staff, and federal agency officials in Washington, D.C.
- Assist the Committee on Science Policy in developing policy statements and white papers to seed new federal initiatives
- Take advantage of many networking opportunities with both peers and leaders in SIAM
- Develop an independent policy project with guidance that will enable deeper learning on a topic of interest to the fellowship recipient and SIAM
Eligibility Criteria
- Be a postdoc or early career researcher
- Be a SIAM member in good standing
- Have a passion for learning about public policy and an interest in being an advocate for applied mathematics and computational science
- Have strong communication skills
- Work and live in the U.S. and have a full-time job during the two-year fellowship term
- Be able to commit to travel to Washington, D.C. twice a year (all costs paid by SIAM)
Required Materials
- A CV/Resume
- Candidate statement addressing why you would like to participate in the program and how it would benefit you and your career (maximum 500 words)
- Issue statement describing one policy issue you care about and why it is important for the future of applied mathematics and/or computational science (maximum 500 words)
- Applicants may be contacted for an interview
I'm really looking forward to meeting other science policy fellows and hearing about their stories with this program. Also, I'm excited to learn a lot about policy and being able to use that to support my students at my institution.
Iván Ojeda-Ruiz 2024 SIAM Science Policy Fellow
2024 - 2025
Jonas Albert Actor
Sandia National Laboratories
Arielle Carr
Lehigh University
Ekaterina Landgren
University of Colorado, Boulder
Iván Ojeda-Ruiz
Texas State University
Catherine Claire Pollack
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
2023 - 2024
Julie Bessac
National Renewal Energy Laboratory
Victor Churchill
The Ohio State University, Trinity College
Jeffrey Larson
Argonne National Laboratory
Bashir Mohammed
Intel Labs
Jake Price
University of Puget Sound
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