Polish Institute of Advanced Studies PIASt is an independent centre of research located in Warsaw. It offers a base for an international community of high-level scholars willing to devote themselves entirely to their research work, while being freed from their usual teaching and administration constraints.

To fulfil this goal the PIASt selects Fellows for a period of five months. The fellowships are offered mainly to scholars active in the fields of the humanities and social sciences, but projects where these disciplines interface with life and exact sciences are also welcome.

The programme supports outstanding researchers from all regions of the world who want to pursue self-directed work in fine research conditions. They will form a small but stimulating community which will benefit from its multi-disciplinary composition, that enables free exchange of ideas and opinions in a spirit of a cross-disciplinary dialogue.

The programme welcomes applications of high scientific standard. Both, leading senior researchers and promising younger scholars are offered an opportunity to devote themselves full-time to their research. Applicants must all submit research proposals, supported by evidence of their former achievements on the international stage, demonstrated by high quality publications. The Institute especially welcomes applicants with abilities to build ties and collaborate with research institutions and individual researchers in Poland.

The PIASt selects applicants with regard to how interesting and innovative their research projects are, and to the quality of their scientific experience. We are open to a variety of research methods, including theory, analyses of original sources, and analyses of large secondary data sets. We seek candidates with a strong research background in their own discipline, but willing and able to develop research projects drawing on PIASt's interdisciplinary atmosphere and ready to take part in PIASt internal and external activities - seminars, workshops, etc.


Deadline for applications: January 20, 2023.
https://piast.pan.pl/?lang=en&tab=apply