Junior Associates

My visit to the ICTP as a Junior Associate was very productive. It allowed me to utilize the center’s vast and up to date scientific materials that are essential for my research. The environment is very stimulating and vibrant. My visits to the ICTP always leave an inspiration and energy that pushes me to work harder to uplift the scientific situation in my country.

Darwin Barayang Putungan, University of the Philippines Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines

Junior Associates are young scientists - up to the age of 35 at the time of application - who hold a PhD and are working in developing countries. This year ICTP announces a special edition of its Associates Programme aimed at Sub-Saharan Africa. In honour of founder Abdus Salam's centennial anniversary in 2026, the Centre invites scientists working in the region (https://www.britannica.com/place/sub-Saharan-Africa) to apply for associateships that would take effect in 2027.

The Associate Programme enables them to maintain long term formal contacts with the stimulating and active scientific environment of the Centre by supporting their visits to ICTP where they are exposed to the most modern aspects of their scientific fields.

Associates are expected to play a major role in building their scientific communities, enhancing physics and mathematics education at all levels, and planning research projects related to the specific needs of their home regions.

Fields of research

High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Mathematics

Earth System Physics

Science, Technology and Innovation

Advanced Scientific Instrumentation
Digital Fabrication and Science Dissemination
Ionospheric Physics, Ionospheric Modelling, Space Weather
Optics
Wireless ICT and Internet of Things

Quantitative Life Sciences

Other

Medical Physics

Who can apply

All applicants must hold a PhD and have their main affiliation in a scientific institute in a Sub-Saharan African country. For the full list of eligible countries, please refer to the following link: https://www.britannica.com/place/sub-Saharan-Africa

Candidates should request two senior scientists (preferably from an institute other than their own) who are well acquainted with their work to send a recommendation letter in support of their application. The online application tool provides a dedicated section for soliciting and receiving recommendation letters.

The age limit for Junior Associates is 35 at the time of application.

Entitlements

Junior Associates are entitled to three fares during the six-year period of their award for visits, which must have a minimum duration of 30 days (in order to obtain travel entitlement) and a maximum of 60 days, up to a total allocation of 180 days for the six-year period of the award.

Contacts

Phone: (+39) 040 2240 4554/4624

Email: assoc@ictp.it

Organizers