Application Process
Fellowship Award
Basic Criteria
Candidates should be early in their career but have demonstrated significant experience at the postdoctoral level and be widely recognized as having potential for exceptional scholarship, breadth, innovation, and leadership with a clear potential to play an important role in their field as a member of the faculty or staff of prominent research institutions, including SLAC.
Successful Candidates
Panofsky Fellow Criteria for Award
This scientist has the potential for innovation, growth, and the ability to create new opportunities as their career develops.
Submission Information
The candidate's research plan should:
- Encompass one or more areas within the science program at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, and
- Describe how the proposed research will uniquely benefit from the opportunity to conduct research at SLAC
- Demonstrate alignment with the SLAC mission and values.
Applications generally benefit from making an extra effort to prepare the research plan to incorporate a good understanding of the capabilities and facilities at SLAC.
Panofsky Fellowship Candidates must submit the following documentation with their application.
- A cover letter
- A curriculum vitae
- Publications list
To which the candidate made a very significant contribution - Candidate Research Plan
3,000 words
As described in the criteria above. - 3 Reference letters from whom the candidate has solicited letters
To be submitted by the reviewer in Academic Jobs Online
Submit at Academic Jobs Online
The cover letter, three reference letters, and other supporting documentation should be submitted online to Academic Jobs Online.
2025 Panofsky Fellowship Applications are now open.
All required documentation should be submitted to Academic Jobs Online by December 03, 2024 for consideration.
Wolfgang K.H. Panofsky
Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky, known affectionately to most as “Pief,” was born in Berlin in 1919. Learn more about his life and remarkable career.
MISSION
The Panofsky Fellowship intends to foster the creativity and high achievement to which W.K.H. Panofsky devoted himself both as a researcher and as a visionary leader in enabling fundamental science research.
