Candidates must be nominated by members of the Advisory Committee or heads of the individual Institutes. Direct applications will NOT be accepted.

The nominated candidate must be a faculty of Academia Sinica (namely distinguished research fellow, research fellow and associated research fellow) with the recognition as an independent and qualified investigator. Current Directors of Institutes and Research Centers shall not be nominated as candidates. The execution of the 2020 Investigator Award will commence on January 1, 2020.

The review process includes a preliminary review and a secondary review. Please refer to “Instructions for preliminary review of Academia Sinica Investigator Award, 2020” for preparing documents required for the nomination.  All documents should be completed in English for Divisions of Mathematics and Physical Sciences and Life Sciences.  For Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, the application documents can be written in languages with which experts in relevant fields are familiar.  All materials prepared for the nomination must be delivered to Department of Academic Affairs and Instrument Service by March 15, 2019.

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The letter of recommendation should be sent directly to Ms. Ching-Ping Hsu of Department of Academic Affairs and Instrument Service by March 15, 2019. Applicants who pass the preliminary review will be officially notified and asked to submit the completed proposals for the secondary review.

The Academia Sinica Investigator Awardees cannot hold the title of Project Director or Co-Principal Investigator in interdisciplinary projects.

Should an awardee of the Award be involved in academic ethics violations, his or her case will be processed according to the “Guidelines for the Establishment and Operation of Ethics Committees at All Levels, Academia Sinica.”

Guidelines for Academia Sinica Investigator Award, the format for document preparation, and instructions for the preparation of Academia Sinica Investigator Award, 2020 can be downloaded below.

For more information, please contact Ms. Ching-Ping Hsu at Department of Academic Affairs and Instrument Service.

Phone: +886-2-27899351

Email: cphsu@gate.sinica.edu.tw