The Yale physics department offers two major Prize Postdoctoral fellowships, the “Yale Prize Postdoctoral Fellowship” and the “Yale Mossman Fellowship” for incoming postdoctoral researchers. In addition, there are two fellowships that are pertinent to physics research which are offered by other departments: the “YCAA Prize Fellowship” offered by the astronomy department and the “Yale Quantum Institute Fellowship” offered by the Yale Quantum Institute (YQI). All these fellowships have a three-year term
Yale Prize Postdoctoral Fellowship
The Condensed Matter Theory group at Yale University seeks outstanding applicants for a Yale Physics Prize Postdoctoral Fellowship endowed by Yale University. Preference will be given to applicants with expertise in quantum aspects of condensed matter theory and research interests in the general areas of electron correlations, low-dimensional systems, topological phases of matter, disorder, cold atomic gases, and physics of quantum information. The postdoctoral scholar is encouraged to work independently or in collaboration with faculty members (Meng Cheng, Steve Girvin, Leonid Glazman, Nicholas Read and Ramamurti Shankar). Candidates should forward their CV with publication list and outline of research interests and arrange for three recommendation letters. Candidates may also include up to four selected preprints and reprints. Electronic submission (in PDF format) of applications and supporting materials is strongly preferred. Please submit all materials, including recommendation letters, to Interfolio. Application Deadline for the next year to be announced. Early applications are strongly encouraged.
2023 Nemin Wei (current)
2022 Benjamin Remez (Postdoctoral Researcher, Joint Quantum Institute, College Park, Maryland)
2021 Tyler Ellison (Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University)
2020 Pavlo Sukhachov (currently postdoc at UC Santa Cruz, will move to a long-term position in QuSpin NTNU in Trondheim, Norway)
2019 Zachary Raines (postdoc fellow in University of Minnesota)
2018 Jose Lebreuilly (freelance according to Linkedin)
2017 Thomas Veness (postdoc in Nottingham)
2016 Ian Mondragon-Shem (Argonne National Lab, now postdoc in Northwestern)
2015 Aris Alexandradinata (UIUC, now faculty in UC Santa Cruz)
2014 Richard Brierley (River Lane Research, now senior editor of Nature Magazines)
2013 Hendrik Meier (went to industry)
2011 Ion Garate (faculty in University of Sherbrooke)
2010 Jerome Dubail (research director, CNRS, Strasbourg, France)
2009 Gianluigi Catelani (permanent research staff, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany)
2008 Shina Tan (faculty in Georgia Institute of Technology, now in PKU. 2010 George Valley APS prize)
Yale Mossman Fellowship
in any subfield
The Yale Physics Department is proud to offer the Yale Mossman Postdoctoral Fellowship. This fellowship is intended to support promising physicists in the early stages of their careers.
The fellowship can be in any subfield of physics. The fellowship provides a three-year appointment with a competitive stipend, discretionary annual research fund, comprehensive health insurance, and access to the department’s research facilities.
Yale has an active and engaged research community in many subfields of physics including astrophysics and cosmology, atomic physics, biophysics, condensed matter, gravitational physics, nuclear and particle physics, and quantum science. More information about the department’s research activities can be found our research pages.
Interested candidates should submit their application online. Application materials include a CV, a publication list, a minimum of three letters of recommendation, and a statement of research interest.
Yale strongly welcomes applications from women, persons with disabilities, protected veterans, and underrepresented minorities. Yale is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.
For inquiries about this position, please contact the committee.
2024 Matthew Leighton (Theoretical biophysics)
2023 Maximiliano Silva-Feaver (Experimental particle physics and cosmology)
2023 Daniil Antonenko (Theoretical condensed matter physics)
2022 Murat Kologlu(Theoretical high-energy physics and string theory)
2021 Justin Lane (Atomic physics)
2020 Yuan Xin (Particle theory)
YCAA Prize Fellowship
The Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics invites applications for the YCAA Prize Fellowship. The YCAA is part of a vibrant research community in the Astronomy and Physics departments at Yale. The Fellowship is for three years (renewed annually subject to performance) and offers salary, benefits and research funds comparable to the Hubble and other similar prize fellowships.
Yale offers a lively academic community and access to world-class astronomical facilities, including the Keck and Palomar telescopes. Because Yale is an institutional member of the SDSS-IV and SDSS-V collaborations, YCAA Fellows can automatically join both. YCAA Fellows also have access to High-Performance Computing facilities at Yale.
Fellows are expected to carry out their own research program, although research interests that intersect with those of Yale Astrophysics faculty are preferred. Active research at Yale spans most areas in astrophysics and includes theoretical, observational, and instrumentation efforts.
Yale Quantum Institute Fellowship
The Yale Quantum Institute (YQI), founded in 2014, serves as a forum to bring together experimental and theoretical researchers at Yale in the field of quantum information physics, quantum optics and nanophotonics, optomechanics, mesoscopic physics, quantum control, quantum measurement, and quantum many-body physics. It provides a synergistic and collaborative setting for Yale’s cutting edge research in these fields. A report from University Science Strategy Committee identified quantum science as one of Yale’s top priorities and Yale will play a major role in a new, national center for quantum research announced Aug. 26 2020 by the White House and the United States Department of Energy.
In keeping with the mission of the YQI, we are pleased to invite applicants for the YQI postdoctoral fellowships. These Fellowships will support research in the field of quantum science for recent Ph.D. recipients in the group of any of the YQI faculty members.