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The Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship funds postdoctoral researchers who apply AI and machine learning techniques to transform research in the natural, mathematical and engineering sciences.
It is deliberately not an AI-methods fellowship: the target candidate is a domain scientist - in physics, chemistry, biology, materials, mathematics or engineering - who will use AI as the instrument that makes a previously intractable scientific question tractable, and applications that read as machine learning research with a scientific veneer do less well than the reverse.
The fellowship runs two years and, at Oxford, covers Grade 7 salary together with research and travel expenses, computing equipment, and visa and NHS surcharge costs; other host institutions fund equivalent packages. The structure that applicants most often get wrong is that this is not a single centralised competition.
Schmidt Sciences funds the programme, but applications are made to and assessed by individual host universities on their own timetables - Oxford's next submission deadline is 12:00 noon on 16 October 2026 for fellowships starting from April 2027, UC San Diego opened its 2027 cohort on 1 September 2026 with a 5 October 2026 close, and Michigan runs a separate autumn cycle.
Candidates should identify the host institution and prospective supervisor first, check that specific institution's deadline, and make contact with the host group well before submitting, since most sites expect an identified sponsor.
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Or search similar grants →According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Open to researchers who hold or will shortly hold a PhD and wish to undertake a two-year postdoctoral fellowship applying AI and machine learning techniques to research in the natural, mathematical or engineering sciences. The fellowship is aimed at domain scientists adopting AI methods, not primarily at machine learning methodologists. Applications are made to individual participating host universities rather than to Schmidt Sciences centrally, and each host sets its own eligibility details, cohort size and timetable: the University of Oxford accepts applications from 3 August 2026 with a deadline of 12:00 noon on 16 October 2026 for fellowships starting from April 2027; UC San Diego opened its 2027 cohort on 1 September 2026 with a close of 5 October 2026 at 11:59pm PST; the University of Michigan runs a separate cycle with an earlier autumn deadline. Most sites expect candidates to identify a host supervisor or research group before applying, and some departments run internal expression-of-interest stages ahead of the university deadline. The Oxford award covers Grade 7 salary, research and travel expenses, computing equipment, and visa and NHS immigration health surcharge costs. Confirm the deadline, eligibility, start date and supervisor requirements for your specific target institution before applying, as these differ materially between sites. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
The current listing shows the fellowship is paid as a funded postdoctoral position rather than a grant to the applicant, so no single headline award figure is published; the value is the package. At Oxford the award covers salary at University Grade 7, plus research and travel expenses, computing equipment, and visa and NHS immigration health surcharge costs, over a two-year term. Valuing a Grade 7 salary with employer on-costs at roughly 55,000 to 70,000 US dollars a year and adding the research, compute and travel allowance gives a two-year package of approximately 100,000 dollars at the low end and 200,000 dollars at the high end depending on host institution and country - hence amount_min 100,000 and amount_max 200,000. These are estimates built from the published cost components, not a figure Schmidt Sciences states. The practical point for budgeting is that compute and travel are funded separately from salary, which is unusual for a postdoc and removes the usual need to write compute into a separate grant. Verify award ceilings, matching requirements, and allowable costs in the official notice.
Applications for Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship for Applying AI and Machine Learning Across the Natural, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences are due October 16, 2026. Build your timeline backwards from this date to cover registrations, approvals, and final submission checks.
Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship for Applying AI and Machine Learning Across the Natural, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences is funded by Schmidt Sciences (Eric and Wendy Schmidt), delivered through partner universities including the University of Oxford, UC San Diego and the University of Michigan. Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
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