2024 SCOSTEP Visiting Scholar (SVS) Program (Funding Available)

2024 SCOSTEP Visiting Scholar (SVS) program is a capacity building activity of SCOSTEP. The SVS program complements the current scientific program, PRESTO and SCOSTEP’s public outreach activities.

The mission of PRESTO (Predictability of Variable Solar-Terrestrial Coupling) is to identify predictability of the variable solar-terrestrial coupling and its performance metrics through modeling, measurements, and data analysis, and to strengthen communication between scientists and users. The SVS program provides training to graduate students in well-established solar terrestrial physics institutes, for periods of one to three months. The training will help the awardees advance in their career in solar-terrestrial physics using the skills they learned during the training.

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Funding of 2024 SCOSTEP Visiting Scholar

• SCOSTEP will provide the airfare, while it is expected that the hosting lab will provide the living expenses (accommodation, sustenance, ground transportation, visa fees and other incidentals). Trainees should have their own health insurance or arrange a provision with the host institution.

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Eligibility

• Open to applicants from all countries but with an emphasis on applicants from developing countries.
• The program is open to Masters and PhD students with the requirement that the recipient has not received a PhD at the time of application to the program.

Application for 2024 SCOSTEP Visiting Scholar

Candidates will contact one of the SVS program hosts listed below or in the SCOSTEP website (as updated) and work out the details of the visit with the host. Once the applicant and the host agree on a visit, the candidates will prepare an application package including the following the details of the visit

• Work to be performed described in the form of a 2 page proposal
• Applicant’s curriculum vitae,
• Dates of the visit and an estimate of the airfare in economy class;
• Letter from the applicant’s supervisor verifying eligibility to the program,
• A recommendation letter from the host scientist/institution indicating that the proposed work will be mutually beneficial.

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Send a single pdf file of the above material and email it to the SCOSTEP Scientific Secretary: Patricia Doherty ([email protected]). The applicant will be informed within three months after the deadline of the application