Overview
Kavli IPMU is accepting applications for three-year postdoctoral fellowships spanning astrophysics, data-driven discovery, experimental and theoretical physics, mathematics, and science-and-society research.
Complete research opportunity details
Fellows receive a three-year appointment, a competitive salary, start-up funding including travel support, and support for international collaboration, institutional visits and conferences for up to three months per year. IPMU also supports fellows seeking external research funding. English is the institute's official language.
Eligibility requirements
Applicants should be prepared to lead original postdoctoral research in one or more of IPMU's listed research areas and engage in interdisciplinary collaboration. The application requires a cover letter, CV, research statement, publication list and at least three recommendation letters.
Tips for this postdoctoral opportunity
Practical Job and Scholarship guidance. These tips do not replace official rules or create new eligibility requirements.
- Match your research background to the project, laboratory, supervisor and required methods rather than applying only from the title.
- Prepare a focused academic CV, transcripts, publications and research statement or proposal when requested by the official call.
- Confirm funding duration, stipend/salary, tuition coverage, start date and eligibility for international applicants.
- Contact a supervisor before applying only when the official instructions recommend or require it.
Verification notes
Verified on the current Kavli IPMU PD2026 page and its current AcademicJobsOnline listing. IPMU encourages submission by 15 November 2026 JST but does not publish a clock time on its own call page, so only deadline_date is stored.
Job and Scholarship is the discovery and verification layer. Confirm eligibility, dates, salary/funding and application instructions on the original source before submitting anything.
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