Early Career Award for Biological Physics Research Grant

Early Career Award for Biological Physics Research Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: American Physical Society (APS)
Amount: Up to US $5,500
Last Updated: December 27, 2025

Summary

The Early Career Award for Biological Physics Research, presented by the American Physical Society (APS), recognizes the exceptional contributions of early-career researchers in biological physics. This prestigious award includes a $2,000 prize, a certificate, and travel reimbursement for attending the APS March Meeting. Eligibility extends to APS-DBIO members with up to seven years of postdoctoral experience. The award emphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of biological physics, welcoming applicants from various related fields.

Overview

About APS The American Physical Society (APS) is a nonprofit membership organization working to advance and diffuse the knowledge of physics through its outstanding research journals, scientific meetings, and education, outreach, advocacy, and international activities. APS represents more than 50,000 members, including physicists in academia, national laboratories, and industry in the United States and throughout the world. Early Career Award for Biological Physics Research This award recognizes outstanding and sustained contributions by an early-career researcher to biological physics. The APS Division of Biological Physics presents the award annually, consisting of $2,000, a certificate, a travel reimbursement of up to $1,000 for US domestic or $1,500 for international travel, and a registration waiver to receive the award and give an invited talk at the APS March Meeting. Establishment This unit-level award was created in 2021 and is supported by APS’s operating budget.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. The applicant must be an APS-DBIO member at the time of application.Biological physics researchers with at most 7 years of full-time activity since starting their first independent position as of the nomination deadline, allowing for career breaks (e.g., due to child or dependent care, illness, military service, etc.), are eligible. The application package must explicitly state the date that the applicant started their first independent position, and any career breaks.The award is open to researchers from all disciplines that contribute to the advancement of biological physics, broadly construed, including experimental, computational, engineering, or theoretical approaches. The prize recognizes the fundamentally interdisciplinary nature of biological physics.The postgraduate degree and/or current affiliation of the applicant need not be in physics, but may also be in any appropriate related area, including, but not limited to:biomedical engineering, applied mathematics, applied physics, biological physics, biophysics, biology, materials science, mathematics, biochemistry, chemistry, or chemical engineering. Applications are open to all scientists of all nations regardless of the geographic site at which the work was done. You must be a member of this organization to apply for this award - become a member.

Ineligibility

The applicant cannot be a previous recipient of the award.The applicant cannot be a member of the award selection committee.No current member of the DBIO Executive Committee may apply for the award. If an early career Executive Committee member’s term ends on their final year of eligibility, they will be allowed to submit an application at most 1 year past their final eligibility date (no more than 8 years of full time activity).