Institute for Advanced Study

International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX)

For over 30 years IREX has supported the highest quality research in the social sciences and humanities. IREX research programs provide individuals and teams of researchers with the support and resources they need to achieve their personal and professional goals. IREX offers multiple fellowships; see their website for details.

Jennings Randolph Program for International Peace

Awards Senior Fellowships and Peace
Scholar Dissertation Fellowships to enable outstanding scholars, policymakers, journalists, and other professionals to conduct research on important issues concerning international conflict and peace.

Kosciuszko Foundation

Graduate and Postgraduate Studies and Research in Poland

This program enables American students to pursue a course of graduate or postgraduate study and research in Poland for an academic year or semester. The program also supports university faculty who wish to spend a sabbatical conducting research in Poland.

Kresqe Foundation

The Kresge Foundation Science Initiative is a challenge grant program to upgrade and endow scientific instrumentation and laboratories in colleges and universities, teaching hospitals, medical schools, and research institutions.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

This prestigious opportunity provides a professor the resources and freedom to conduct cutting edge research in fields of their choice. Candidates are invited to conduct original research on one or more aspects of science relevant to the mission and goals of LLNL, which include: Physics, Computational Mathematics, Computer Science, Chemistry, Materials Science, Engineering, Environmental Science, Atmospheric Science, Geological Sciences, Energy, Laser Science and Biological Science. Successful candidates may participate in experimental or theoretical work at LLNL and will have access to the Laboratory's extensive computing facilities, specialized laboratory facilities and field equipment.

Leo Baeck Institute

The Leo Baeck Institute is devoted to studying the history of German-speaking Jewry from its origins to its tragic destruction by the Nazis and to preserving its culture. A number of fellowships are offered, including:

The LBI and the DAAD announce the availability of two fellowships per year for doctoral students affiliated with an accredited U.S. institution of higher education or recent Ph.D.'s. They provide financial assistance to students for dissertation research work and to academics for writing a scholarly essay or book. Extensive use of LBI New York resources is to aid research projects falling within the field of study served by the LBI, namely the social, communal and intellectual history of German-speaking Jewry.

Library of Congress

Library of Congress offers fellowships for Humanistic and Social Science Research through the Kluge Center , which especially encourages humanistic and social science research that makes use of the Library's large and varied collections. Interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, or multilingual research is particularly welcome.

Lillly Library Research Fellowships, Indiana U

The Lilly Library, the principal rare book and manuscript library of Indiana University , invites applications for visiting fellowships for research in residence in its collections. Its holdings support research in British, French, and American literature and history; the literature of voyages and exploration, specifically the European expansion in the Americas ; early printing, and the Church, children's literature, music; film, radio and television; medicine, science, and architecture; and food and drink.

MacArthur Fellows Program

Provides unrestricted fellowships to exceptionally talented and promising individuals who have shown evidence of originality, dedication to creative pursuits, and capacity for self-direction. The MacArthur Fellows Program accepts nominations only from the more than 100 designated nominators across the country in a range of academic and professional fields.

Maclellan Foundation

The purpose of the Maclellan Foundation is to serve strategic international and national organizations committed to furthering the Kingdom of Christ and select local organizations that foster the spiritual welfare of the community.

Merrill Lynch Innovation Grants Competition

Will award a total of $180,000 to eligible PhDs who most effectively present the potential commercial applications of their dissertation topics. The program seeks to stimulate inventiveness by challenging PhDs in the sciences, liberal arts, and engineering disciplines to examine their research in light of real world applications.

National Council for Eurasian and East European

NCEEER was created in 1978 to develop and sustain long-term, high quality programs of post-doctoral research about the social, political, economic and historical development of Russia , Eurasia , and Eastern Europe . Among national research organizations, NCEEER is the largest provider of resources to U.S. scholars for postdoctoral research in these fields. Its support for research on the region has produced direct benefits for U.S. policymakers, the academic community, nonprofit organizations and American business. The projects it has funded have helped people from all of these fields gain a better understanding of current developments and future prospects in the post-communist countries of Europe and Eurasia . NCEEER has also been involved in bringing to the attention of Congress and the executive branch the national interest served by the exchange of ideas among professionals in academia and government.

National Education Association

Visiting Senior Fellowship Program Applications will be considered for study in the history, theory, and criticism of the visual arts (painting, sculpture, architecture, landscape architecture, urbanism, prints and drawings, film, photography, decorative arts, industrial design, etc.) of any geographical area and of any period. Applications are also solicited from scholars in other disciplines whose work examines artifacts or has implications for the analysis and criticism of physical form.

National Endowment for the Humanities

NEH is an independent grant-making agency of the United States government dedicated to supporting research, education, and public programs in the humanities.

National Humanities Center

The National Humanities Center is the country's only independent institute for advanced study in the humanities. A private, nonprofit institution, the Center exists to encourage excellent scholarship and to affirm the importance of the humanities in American society. Leaders from higher education, the corporate world, and public life founded the Center in 1976, convinced that we must study history, language and literature, philosophy, the arts, religion, law, and all other humanities fields if we want to understand the human experience. Most of the Center's fellowships are unrestricted. The following designated awards, however, are available for the academic year 2004-05: three fellowships for scholars in any humanistic field whose research concerns religion or theology; three fellowships for young scholars (up to 10 years beyond receipt of doctorate) in literary studies; a fellowship in art history or visual culture; a fellowship for French history or culture; a fellowship in Asian Studies.

National Institutes of Health

Summer internship program, post baccaluarte research opportunities, graduate education program, clinical and research training programs for medical and dental students.

National Research Council

The National Academies administers Postdoctoral and Senior Research Awards through its Associateship Programs, part of the Policy and Global Affairs Division . The Research Associateship Programs are sponsored by federal laboratories and NASA Research Centers at over one hundred locations in the United States and overseas.

Awards are made to doctoral level scientists and engineers who can apply their special knowledge and research talents to research areas that are of interest to them and to the host laboratories and centers. Awards are made to Postdoctoral Associates (within 5 years of the doctorate) and Senior Associates (normally 5 years or more beyond the doctorate). Each awardee works in collaboration with a Research Adviser, who is a staff member of the federal laboratory. In addition to traditional Postdoctoral and Senior awards, the Associateship Programs offer Summer Faculty Awards , combined teaching and research awards , opportunities in the NASA Astrobiology Institute , and the international opportunities at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and the Naval Medical Research Center overseas laboratories.

National Security Agency

Mathematical Sabbatical Program

The sabbaticals primarily involve cryptanalysis, a discipline highly dependent on superior math ability. Other sabbatical work involves algebra, probability, statistics, number theory, and discrete mathematics.

Newberry Library

The Newberry Library is an independent research library concentrating in the humanities with an active educational and cultural presence in Chicago . Free and open to the public, it houses an extensive non-circulating collection of rare books, maps, and manuscripts. Fellowships at the Newberry Library are of two types: short-term fellowships with terms of one week to two months and long-term fellowships of six to eleven months. Short-term fellowships are generally restricted to individuals from outside the metropolitan Chicago area and are primarily intended to assist researchers with a need to examine specific items in the Library's collection. Long-term fellowships are generally available without regard to an applicant's place of residence and are intended to support significant works of scholarship that draw on the Library's strengths. Fellowships include, but are not limited to, the following:

Rockefeller Foundation--Long Term Fellowships in the Humanities

Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellowships

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships

Monticello College Foundation Fellowship for Women

Lloyd Lewis Fellowships in American History

Audrey Lumsden-Kouvel Fellowship

Leadership in Professional Development Grants

NSF Directorate for Social, Behavorial and Economic Sciences/NSF

Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics--Mid-Career Research Fellowships

Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, Higher Education Research Experiences

Higher Education Research Experiences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory for Faculty

The sponsor provides opportunities to participate in ongoing energy research. Eligible disciplines include physical and natural sciences, engineering, mathematics, and computer science. Research may take place at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge , Tennessee.

Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, Savannah River Site

Savannah River Site Faculty Research Participation Program

Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, Air Force Research Laboratory

Faculty Research Participation at the Air Force Research Laboratory

Awards support college or university faculty to take part in activities in the biological sciences, computer sciences, engineering, environmental sciences, physical sciences and related scientific disciplines. activities are to be carried out at the Air Force Research Laboratory at the Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida.

Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, POW/MIA

Faculty Research Participation at the U.S. Army Joint POW/MIA

The sponsor provides the opportunity to college or university faculty to participate in research to locate, exhume and identify the remains of individuals killed in military service. Related fields include anthropology, DNA identification, forensic anthropology, and forensic dentistry.

Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, Edgewood Chemical Biological Center

Faculty Research Participation at the U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center

Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, Environmental Management

Faculty Environmental Management Participation at the U.S. Army

The sponsor provides opportunities for college or university faculty members to participate in research in environmental programs involving cultural and natural resources restoration, compliance, conservation, pollution prevention, validation, demonstration, technology transfer, quality assurance and quality control, training, information management and reporting, and related issues. Activities are to be carried out at the U.S. Army Environmental Center at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland . The sponsor provides opportunities for college or university faculty members to participate in research in environmental programs involving cultural and natural resources restoration, compliance, conservation, pollution prevention, validation, demonstration, technology transfer, quality assurance and quality control, training, information management and reporting, and related issues. Activities are to be carried out at the U.S. Army Environmental Center at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland.

Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, U.S. Army

Faculty Research Participation at the U.S. Army

Office of Naval Research

Summer Faculty Research Program and Sabbatical Leave Program

The Summer Faculty Research Program is a 10-week program, beginning in May 2004. There are three levels of appointment: Summer Faculty Fellow, Senior Summer Faculty Fellow, and Distinguished Summer Faculty Fellow. Stipends range from $1,400 to $1,900 per week for the summer program. Each Fellow will be reimbursed for expenses incurred on an optional pre- program visit to the sponsoring laboratory and one round-trip encompassing travel to the sponsoring laboratory at the beginning of the program and travel back to their home residence at the end of the program. Relocation assistance is provided to qualifying participants. At the discretion of the Navy lab, Fellows may be allowed to bring a student to the lab to assist with the summer research.

The Sabbatical Leave Program provides fellowship appointments for a minimum of one semester to a maximum of one year in length. Participants in the Sabbatical Leave Program receive a monthly stipend making up the difference between salary and sabbatical leave pay from their home institution. Relocation and travel assistance are provided to qualifying participants.

Both programs are residential and all work must be completed on site at the sponsoring U.S. Navy laboratory.

Pew Charitable Trusts

The Pew Charitable Trusts support nonprofit activities in the areas of culture, education, the environment, health and human services, public policy and religion. Based in Philadelphia , the Trusts make strategic investments that encourage and support citizen participation in addressing critical issues and effecting social change.

Princeton University ; Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs; Center for the Study of Democratic Politics

Predoctoral Visitors

Princeton University 's Center for the Study of Democratic Politics seeks up to five visitors for the academic year. The center supports empirical research on democratic political processes and institutions, primarily, but not exclusively in the contemporary American setting, with a particular focus on the relationship between democratic theory and democratic practice. Applications are welcome from political scientists and scholars in related social science disciplines at any career stage from graduate students to senior faculty. Each visitor will pursue his or her own research and contribute to the intellectual life of the center, the department of politics, and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Among equally qualified applicants, preference will be given to those who can provide partial self-support in the form of sabbatical funding, external grants, or concurrent fellowships.

Radcliffe Institute Fellows

The Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College, a multidisciplinary residential research center, offers fellowships for women scholars, scientists, artists, and writers.

Reuters Foundation

Digital Vision Fellowship Program at Stanford University - Developing World Fellowship

The Digital Vision Fellowship Program is a sabbatical program that offers technology professionals the opportunity to use their vision and talent in developing solutions to the challenges facing the developing world, through a six- to nine-month sabbatical at the Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), at Stanford University .

Digital Vision fellows will each undertake a project that explores the utility of information and communications technologies (ICTs) in addressing developing world problems. Projects will have a practical emphasis: fellows produce proof-of-concepts by working closely with non-governmental organizations (NGOs), including Reuters Foundation's AlertNet (an online community of 170 international disaster relief NGOs in 34 countries) and visiting the affected areas. Fellows are awarded a travel grant to make field trips to their chosen region, to develop and test their solution.

The program also holds regular seminars with world-class speakers from the technology, academic, and nonprofit sectors. Fellows may also audit any course at Stanford during the year and sign up for extra classes and seminars.

Rhodes University ; Department of Economics and Economic History

Hobart Houghton Research Fellowship

The Hobart Houghton Research Fellowship is intended to promote work of scientific value, relevant to the economic problems of the Eastern Cape , that could contribute to the upliftment of the people of the region.

he criterion of relevance to the Eastern Cape is to be interpreted broadly. It may in some cases involve fieldwork within the province, as for instance in a study of rural households or unemployment. In other cases, as perhaps for some problems of industrialisation in the region, the key to understanding might lie largely in developments at the national and international levels. In all cases the aim is fundamental research, yielding results that are of more than local or regional interest, rather than description of particular provincial problems. The basic requirement thus is simply that the research deal with significant issues that are directly or indirectly relevant to the Eastern Cape.

Robert W. Woodruff Library, Fellowship Program, Special Collections Dept

The Robert W. Woodruff Library of Emory University offers short-term fellowships to support scholarly use of the Library's research collections in the areas of modern literature and African-American studies.

Rockefeller Foundation

The Rockefeller Foundation is a knowledge-based global foundation with a commitment to enrich and sustain the lives and livelihoods of poor and excluded people throughout the world. It offers fellowships and/or programs in the areas of Creativity and Culture, Food Security, Health Equity, Working Communities, Global Inclusions, Assets and Capacities, and Regional Programs.

Ronald McDonald House Children's Charities

Ronald McDonald House Charities provides comfort and care to children and their families by supporting Ronald McDonald Houses in communities around the world and by making grants to other not-for-profit organizations whose programs help children in need.

Rotary Foundation

The Rotary Foundation is a not-for-profit corporation that supports the efforts of Rotary International to achieve world understanding and peace through international humanitarian, educational, and cultural exchange programs.

Royal Society - United Kingdom ; Research Appointments in the United Kingdom

Royal Society USA Research Fellowships

The Royal Society USA Research Fellowships have been established by the Royal Society to increase scientific collaboration between centres of excellence in the United Kingdom and the USA . The fellowships are offered to encourage active and innovative American postdoctoral scientists to undertake the highest quality research in U.K. laboratories for extended periods (between one and three years). Grants may be awarded for research in all branches of the natural sciences. Awards are not available in the areas of the social sciences or clinical medical research.

Russell Sage Foundation

The Russell Sage Foundation has established a center where Visiting Scholars can pursue their writing and research and to investigate topics in social and behavioral sciences. Of particular interest to the foundation are groups of scholars who wish to collaborate on a specific project during their residence at Russell Sage. The foundation is committed to an ongoing effort to analyze the shifting nature of social and economic life in the U.S.

Sabbatical Homes

A web site that lets scholars who are planning sabbaticals or other trips search for apartments and house-sitting opportunities around the world.

School of American Research

In-residence fellowships support writing projects, or Ph.D. dissertations about topics in the understanding of humankind. Topics may be humanistic or scientific, from the perspective of anthropology or from anthropologically informed perspectives in fields such as history, sociology, art, and philosophy. The award provides a stipend of $30,000 for a nine-month tenure.

Smithsonian Institute

Fellowships at the Smithsonian Institution provide students and scholars with opportunities to pursue independent research projects in association with members of the Smithsonian professional research staff. They offer 50+ fellowships in many areas. See their website for details.

Social Science Research Council

SSRC fellowship and grant programs provide support and professional recognition to innovators within fields, and especially to younger researchers whose work and ideas will have longer-term impact on society and scholarship. These programs often target the spaces between disciplines, where new perspectives emerge and struggle for acceptance, thus ensuring the production of knowledge and expertise on key topics, regions, and social challenges. They promote the diversification of knowledge production, strengthening research by ensuring that it remains open to (and challenged by) a range of perspectives, backgrounds, and nationalities.

Spencer Foundation

The Spencer Foundation was established in 1962 by Lyle M. Spencer. The Foundation received its major endowment upon Spencer's death in 1968 and began formal grant making in 1971. Since that time, the Foundation has made grants totaling approximately $250 million. The Foundation is intended, by Spencer's direction, to investigate ways in which education, broadly conceived, can be improved around the world. From the first, the Foundation has been dedicated to the belief that research is necessary to the improvement of education. The Foundation is thus committed to supporting high-quality investigation of education through its research programs and to strengthening and renewing the educational research community through its fellowship and training programs and related activities.

St Louis University , Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Vatican Film Library   -   St. Louis Room's Rare Book Collection

Stanford Humanities Center

One of the oldest campus-based humanities research institutes in the United States , the Stanford Humanities Center forms a crossroads where the intellectual and the social merge to provide a supportive environment. Historians, philosophers, literary critics, anthropologists, and other humanists of diverse ages, academic ranks, and departmental and institutional affiliations contribute to and learn from one another's work while widening the role of the humanities in our society.

Each year the Stanford Humanities Center offers residential fellowships to as many as thirty fellows, who meet regularly in formal and informal sessions while pursuing their individual study, research, and writing. The Center constitutes an intellectual and social community in which historians, philosophers, scholars of literature and the arts, anthropologists, and other humanists of diverse ages, academic ranks, and departmental and institutional affiliations contribute to and learn from one another's work.

Starr Foundation

The Starr Foundation funds programs in a wide range including culture, public policy, human needs, medicine and healthcare, and education.

University of Calgary ; Calgary Institute for the Humanities

Visiting Research Fellowships

The Calgary Institute for the Humanities supports work in the traditional humanities disciplines such as languages and literatures, philosophy, and history, as well as in the philosophical and historical aspects of the social sciences, arts, sciences, and professional studies. The humanities are thus not conceived as a specific group of academic disciplines, but as forms of study that explore human reality and experience, guided by literature, by history, and by philosophical analysis and reflection.

University of California , Los Angeles

UCLA offers a wide variety of postdoctoral and visiting faculty opportunities. These include, but are not limited to, the following:

Postdoctoral/Visiting Scholar Fellowship in Ethnic Studies--African American Studies

Postdoctoral/Visiting Scholar Fellowship in Ethnic Studies--Chicano Studies

Postdoctoral/Visiting Scholar Fellowship in Ethnic Studies--Asian American Studies

Postdoctoral/Visiting Scholar Fellowship in Ethnic Studies--American Indian Studies

University of Cambridge ; Corpus Christi College

Visiting Fellowships

Corpus Christi College has an annual programme under which scholars from either Great Britain or overseas may spend the year (at least one term) in Cambridge as visiting fellows. The Visiting Fellowships provide scholars with the opportunity of carrying out their research in the environment of a college with a tradition for scholarship and research. Visiting fellows become members of the University of Cambridge during their stay and enjoy many of the benefits of working in an international centre for research and cultural activities. The fellowships are ideally suited to faculty members on sabbatical leave from their permanent positions.

Visiting Fellows also have the opportunity of interacting with postgraduate students in their own discipline and over a wide range of subjects researched by postgraduates resident at Leckhampton. Two college societies hold meetings at Leckhampton: the Stephen Hales Society, at which lectures are given by scholars connected with Corpus, and the Leckhampton Society, at which students speak informally about their own work. Visiting Fellows are encouraged to participate in these meetings, and spouses or partners are also made welcome.

University of London ; School of Advanced Study; Institute of United States Studies

John Adams Fellowships

The Institute of United States Studies was founded to promote and coordinate American studies in the University of London and to assist liaison between teachers of subjects relating to the United States in other institutions of higher education. The primary scholarly role of the institute is to provide a forum for distinguished visiting scholars and public figures from around the world.

John Adams Fellowships will be given in support of any scholarly work in the traditional humanities or social science disciplines with a focus on American studies. The fellowships are tenable at the University of London . It is expected that fellows will offer a public lecture and present one or two seminars within the institute.

University of Melbourne

Univ. of Melbourne Visiting Research Scholars Grants

The University of Melbourne offers the Visiting Research Scholars Awards to assist researchers at leading universities and research institutions in Australia and overseas to visit the University of Melbourne for periods of three to twelve months for collaborative research. The objectives of the program are: to facilitate the development and strengthening of links between researchers at the University of Melbourne and researchers in leading Australian and overseas universities, other research institutions and industry; to promote research activities within the framework of exchange agreements with overseas universities and research institutions; and to increase the competitiveness of University of Melbourne researchers when bidding for external collaborative research funding.

University of Michigan

Center for the Education of Women--Visiting Scholar Program

The sponsor provides support to scholars whose interests lie in the following areas: women in higher education; women's work; women of color in the academy; gender and education; career development; women in non-traditional fields; leadership; gender equity in education and employment; and gender and poverty.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research

Postdoctoral Fellowships in Mental Health and Substance Abuse Systems and Services Research

University of Utah ; Tanner Humanities Center , Obert C. and Grace A.

Obert C. and Grace A. Tanner Visiting Fellowship

Tanner Humanities Center 's mission is to promote humanistic research and education at the University of Utah , in the state, and in the nation. Faculty affiliated with colleges and universities, as well as independent scholars, interested in humanistic issues are eligible to apply. Projects in any of the following fields are eligible for support: anthropology and archaeology, communication, history, philosophy, religious studies, ethnic and cultural studies, jurisprudence, history/theory/criticism of the arts, languages and linguistics, literature, gender studies, historical or philosophical issues in the social and natural sciences, or the professions. The center encourages projects that are interdisciplinary and that are likely to contribute to substantive intellectual exchange among a diverse group of scholars.

Visiting fellows may hold other support (sabbatical or other funding) during their fellowship but should note in their proposal if that is the case. Fellows are required to remain in residence for the nine-month academic fellowship year (August through April), to participate in center activities, and to contribute to the intellectual life of the university community. The nature of this contribution will depend on fellows' own interests and will be determined in consultation with the center director prior to the fellows' arrival in August.

Fellows may direct a faculty research reading group or seminar or teach one course; each fellow will present an academic talk on his or her work in progress. The center's fellows will meet regularly with center's director in informal weekly or bi-weekly sessions. Finally, by June 30, 2005 fellows will submit a written report summarizing their progress, findings, and fellowship experience.

US Institute of Peace

Awards Senior Fellowships and Peace
Scholar Dissertation Fellowships to enable outstanding scholars, policymakers, journalists, and other professionals to conduct research on important issues concerning international conflict and peace.

W.K.Kellogg Foundation

A non-profit that focuses on improving communities' quality of life in the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Southern Africa through the practical application of knowledge and resources. Funding is focused toward food systems and rural development; youth and education and higher education; and philanthropy and volunteerism. Within these focal areas, funding is also provided for leadership; information systems/ technology; efforts to capitalize on diversity; and family, neighborhood, and community development programming.

Western Michigan University ; Medieval Institute

Visiting Fellows

William Randolph Hearst Foundation

The William Randolph Hearst Foundation assists institutions in providing opportunities to underserved and underrepresented populations within its charitable goals of Education, Health, Social Service and Culture.

Wm T Grant Foundation

The goal of the William T. Grant Foundation is to create a society that values young people and enables them to reach their full potential. The Foundation supports basic and applied research on youth development, program evaluations, policy analyses, research sysntheses, and communications research. Priority areas for research are youth development; programs, policies, and institutions affecting young people; and adults' attitudes about and perceptions of young people, focusing on young people age 8 - 25.

Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation (see also Princeton University )

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Marine Policy Fellowship Program

Current areas of research concentration include measurement and conservation of biological diversity; valuation of improved weather and climate forecasting; fish ecology and fish stock dynamics; fisheries management and bycatch policy; aquaculture development and policy; marine transportation technology, safety, and liability; ocean exploration technology and historic shipwrecks management; sources of productivity change in the marine sector; and local, national, and international efforts to control land-based marine pollution.

The fields of economics, law, statistics, public policy, natural resources management, and international relations are preferred, but strong applications from other relevant fields are welcome.