Founded in 1898, Peking University was initially named as the Imperial University of Peking, whose establishment marked the threshold of modern Chinese higher education. Now with a community of over 40, 000 students, faculty members and staff from a variety of cultural backgrounds, Peking University has become a vibrant and internationalized institution in promoting teaching and academic studies.

Boya Postdoctoral Fellowship, initiated by Peking University in 2016, aims at drawing prospective young talents all over the world to conduct postdoctoral research and pursue academic excellence at Peking University, Beijing, China. It offers young researchers opportunities to conduct research in diverse branches of learning such as natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, economy and management, information and engineering, and interdisciplines.

 

Funding

In the academic year of 2019, no more than 200 fellowships will be awarded to highly qualified, early-career postdoctoral researchers. Each Fellowship is awarded for 24 consecutive months. Each Fellowship includes annual salary185,000RMB, social insurances and housing subsidies, etc 91,000RMB, and 60,000RMB subsidy for postdocs with on postdoc flats.

 

Eligibility and Evaluation Criteria

The fellowship is open to highly qualified researchers of all nationalities who received their PhD no more than three years prior to the deadlines of the corresponding calls, as is instructed below. Researchers holding a tenure or tenure-track faculty position are not eligible to apply.

Selection is based on the academic excellence of the applicant, the quality of the proposed research project, compelling demonstration of the anticipated synergy of the proposed research project and the host institution, and the commitment of postdoctoral supervisor at Peking University. The excellent research proposal should include information on how the project will benefit from the research environments of Peking University.

Application

The applicants must identify one faculty member at Peking University who will serve as a postdoctoral supervisor and get his/her written endorsement. The number of the fellowships is limited to no more than 200 for 2019 academic year and will be awarded through two rounds of application and selection in 2019. No more than 140 fellowships will be awarded for the first round and no more than 60 fellowships will be awarded for the second round.

 

Time Table

Round One:

• January 15 to March 15, 2019: call for applications.
• April 1, 2019: preliminary evaluation decisions by schools, departments, institutes or Centers of Peking University
• Late April , 2019: publicity period and final award decisions

 

Round Two:

• September 1 to October 15, 2019: call for applications.
• November 5, 2019: preliminary evaluation decisions by schools, departments, institutes or Centers of Peking University
• Late November, 2019: publicity period and final award decisions

 

Application Materials

All application documents must be prepared in Chinese or English and include the following:

 

• Application Form of Peking University Boya Postdoctoral Fellowship(see the attached document);
• Two recommendation letters (including one from the applicant’s doctoral supervisor), the letters should be sent to the corresponding coordinators(see the table below) directly by the referees;
• One explicit endorsement letter by the postdoc supervisor at Peking University including detailed information on the added value for the research project and a clear statement of commitment regarding the physical and intellectual research environment that the supervisor will provide to the fellow;

Application Deadlines

 

Round One: March 15, 2019

 

     Round Two: October 15, 2019

 

Submission

The complete application should be saved as one file in pdf format. Please submit it by email to the corresponding coordinator (see tables below) in the potential postdoctoral supervisor’s schools, departments, institutes and centers. Incomplete submissions will not be considered.

 

Postdoctoral Affairs Coordinators and Contact Information in Schools, Departments, Institutes or Centers of Peking University
Schools, Departments, Institutes or Centers	Coordinators	Emails	Telephone Numbers
School of Mathematical Sciences	Zhao Jing (Ms)	zhaojing@math.pku.edu.cn	86-10-62751802
School of Physics	Pan Qing (Ms)	panq@pku.edu.cn	86-10-62754973
College of Chemistry	Niu Lin (Ms)	niulin@pku.edu.cn	86-10-62751700
School of Life Sciences	Ruan Xiaojuan (Ms)	ruanxiaojuan@pku.edu.cn	86-10-62755532
College of Urban and Environmental Sciences	Xu Wenjun (Ms)	xwj@urban.pku.edu.cn	86-10-62751926
School of Earth and Space Sciences	Wang Xinru (Ms)	xinruwang@pku.edu.cn	86-10-62751151
School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences	Zhao Xin (Ms)	zhaoxin@pku.edu.cn	86-10-62761081
School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science	Sun Xiaokun (Ms)	sunxk@pku.edu.cn	86-10-62757549
School of Engineering	Yan Jing (Ms)	yanjing@coe.pku.edu.cn	86-10-62751811
Institute of Computer Science & Technology	He Chuan (Ms)	hechuan@pku.edu.cn	86-10-82529512
College of Environmental Science and Engineering	Shi Junyan (Ms) Wang Rongjing (Ms)	shijunyanyan@pku.edu.cn wangrongjing@pku.edu.cn	86-10-62765134
Department of Chinese Language and Literature	Jiang Bing (Ms)	gzhwxps@pku.edu.cn	86-10-62750955
Department of History	Qin Xiaomeng (Ms)	hisrenshi@pku.edu.cn	86-10-62757447
School of Archaeology and Museology	Fang Xiaotian (Ms)	fangxiaotian@pku.edu.cn	86-10-62753758
Department of Philosophy	Duan Rui (Mr)	zhexuexi@pku.edu.cn	86-10-62755468
School of Foreign Languages	Zhang Linna (Ms)	zhln@pku.edu.cn	86-10-62751572
School of Arts	Li Tingting (Ms)	litt@pku.edu.cn	86-10-62753176
School of International Studies	Pan Rongying (Ms)	panry@pku.edu.cn	86-10-62759373
School of Economics	Li Mei (Ms)	limei@pku.edu.cn	86-10-62754258
Guanghua School of Management	Jia Yu (Ms)	jiayu@gsm.pku.edu.cn	86-10-62747181
Law School	Huang Chen (Ms)	pkuhuangchen@pku.edu.cn	86-10-62753816
Department of Information Management	Li Yang (Mr)	pkuliyang@pku.edu.cn	86-10-62751683
Department of Sociology	Cui Jia (Ms)	cuijia0613@pku.edu.cn	86-10-62753029
School of Government	Zhao Kai (Mr)	Zhaokai1223@pku.edu.cn	86-10-62751645
School of Marxism	Li Xin (Mr)	pkulixin@126.com	86-10-62751941
Graduate School of Education	Ge Changli (Ms)	clge@gse.pku.edu.cn	86-10-62751409
School of Journalism and Communication	Wei Bo(Ms)	weibo522@126.com	86-10-62759312
Institute of Population Research	Wang Deli (Mr)	rkyjs@pku.edu.cn	86-10-62751974
National School of Development	Xing Guiying (Ms)	gyxing@nsd.pku.edu.cn	86-10-62751475
Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies	Gong Siyuan (Ms)	gongsy@pku.edu.cn	86-10-62767397
Institute of Molecular Medicine	Liu Jian (Ms)	jianliu@pku.edu.cn	86-10-62767143
The Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics	Liu Lili (Ms)	lililiu86826@gmail.com	86-10-62756630
Beijing International Center for Mathematical Research	Lu Ningbo (Ms) You Yuhua (Ms)	luningbo@bicmr.pku.edu.cn youyuhua@math.pku.edu.cn	86-10-62744129 86-10-62744122

 

Postdoctoral Affairs Office, Peking University

Fan Deshang (Mr); Xu Qian (Ms)

Tel: 86-10-62751229

Email: boguanban@pku.edu.cn;xqian@pku.edu.cn

 

More Information:

1. Please direct all further inquiries to the coordinators listed in the tables above.

2. Postdoctoral Fellows may choose to register at the Office of China’s National Postdoctoral Affairs Management Committee to have access to China’s postdoctoral funds and other special privileges.

3. International postdoctoral fellows will have to sign an agreement with Peking University to initiate the visa application procedure before conducting their postdoctoral research at PKU.

4. Postdocs at Peking University may apply for Boya Postdoctoral Fellowship if the termination date of his/her contract is no more than six months prior to the deadlines of the corresponding rounds