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 2021, no more than 300 postdoctoral fellowships will be awarded to highly qualified, early-career postdoctoral researchers. Each Fellowship is awarded for 24 consecutive months. Each Fellowship includes annual pre-tax salary 200,000 RMB, social insurances and housing subsidies, etc. 91,000RMB, and 60,000 RMB subsidy for postdocs with no postdoc flats. Postdoctoral Supervisors at Peking University may offer extra subsidy based on the applicants’ academic potential and excellence, and performance.
Promotion Opportunities
Postdocs with two years’ postdoc research experience are eligible to apply for senior research positions within postdoc track system at Peking University.
Eligibility and Evaluation Criteria
The fellowship is open to highly qualified researchers of all nationalities who are no more than 35 years old and 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 applicant’s education backgrounds, academic excellence, quality of the proposed research project, compelling demonstration of the anticipated synergy of the proposed research project and the host institution, recommendation, and the commitment of postdoctoral supervisor at Peking University. 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 300 for 2021 academic year and will be awarded through two rounds of application and selection in 2021. In the first half of 2021, more than 170 fellowships were awarded for the first round, so no more than 130 fellowships will be awarded for the second round. Ph. D candidates who will receive his/her degree in 2021 are eligible to apply for the first round and Ph,D candidates who will receive his/her degree before July 1, 2022 are eligible to apply for the second round.
Time Table
Round One:
Round Two:
Application Materials
All application documents must be prepared in Chinese or English and include the following:
Application Deadlines
Round One: March 25, 2021
Round Two: October 15, 2021
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 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 |
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Schools, Departments, Institutes or Centers |
Coordinators |
Emails |
Telephone Numbers |
Beijing International Center for Mathematical Research |
You Yuhua (Ms) |
youyuhua@math.pku.edu.cn |
86-10-62744122 |
College of Urban and Environmental Sciences |
Xu Wenjun (Ms) |
xwj@urban.pku.edu.cn |
86-10-62751926 |
School of Earth and Space Sciences |
Shi Sisi (Ms) |
shisisi@pku.edu.cn |
86-10-62767025 |
Law School |
Huang Chen (Ms) |
lawhuangchen@pku.edu.cn |
86-10-62753816 |
Institute of Molecular Medicine |
Liu Jian (Ms) |
jianliu@pku.edu.cn |
86-10-62767143 |
School of Engineering |
Zhang Yi (Ms) |
zhangyi@coe.pku.edu.cn |
86-10-62756607 |
Guanghua School of Management |
Zhou Yue (Ms) |
zhouyue@gsm.pku.edu.cn |
86-10-62747185 |
School of International Studies |
Feng Jin (Ms) |
fengjin@pku.edu.cn |
86-10-62757567 |
National School of Development |
Xing Guiying (Ms) |
gyxing@nsd.pku.edu.cn |
86-10-62751475 |
College of Chemistry |
Niu Lin (Ms) |
niulin@pku.edu.cn |
86-10-62751700 |
College of Environmental Science and Engineering |
Wang Rongjing (Ms) |
gcesejwb@pku.edu.cn |
86-10-62765134 |
Graduate School of Education |
Ge Changli (Ms) |
clge@gse.pku.edu.cn |
86-10-62751409 |
School of Economics |
Shi Hui (Ms) |
shihui2015@pku.edu.cn |
86-10-62754239 |
School of Archaeology and Museology |
Ji Xiaohui (Ms) |
jixh@pku.edu.cn |
86-10-62751661 |
The Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics |
Liu Lili (Ms) |
liulily@pku.edu.cn |
86-10-62756630 |
Department of History |
Qin Xiaomeng (Ms) |
hisrenshi@pku.edu.cn |
86-10-62757447 |
School of Marxism |
Li Xin (Mr) |
bdmyhr@126.com |
86-10-62751941 |
Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies |
Feng Hui Min (Ms) |
fenghuimin@pku.edu.cn |
86-10-62767397 |
Institute of Population Research |
Hu Chenghua (Ms) |
hch@pku.edu.cn |
86-10-62751974 |
Department of Sociology |
Zhou Yuting (Ms) |
yt_zhou@pku.edu.cn |
86-10-62751676 |
School of Life Sciences |
Ruan Xiaojuan (Ms) |
ruanxiaojuan@pku.edu.cn |
86-10-62755532 |
School of Mathematical Sciences |
Wen Shuang (Ms) |
wenshuang@math.pku.edu.cn |
86-10-62751803 |
School of Foreign Languages |
Zhu Jieqiong (Ms) |
gwyrsh@pku.edu.cn |
86-10-62751572 |
Wangxuan Institute of Computer Technology |
He Chuan (Ms) |
hechuan@pku.edu.cn |
86-10-82529512 |
School of Physics |
Song Yanan (Ms) |
syn@pku.edu.cn |
86-10-62766282 |
School of Advanced Agricultural Sciences |
Lu Qi (Ms) |
lu.q@pku.edu.cn |
86-10-62747682 |
School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences |
Zhao Xin (Ms) |
zhaoxin@pku.edu.cn |
86-10-62761081 |
School of Journalism and Communication |
Wei Bo(Ms) |
weibo522@126.com |
86-10-62759312 |
Department of Information Management |
Li Pai (Mr) |
lipai@pku.edu.cn |
86-10-62751683 |
,Department of Computer Science and Technology, School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science |
Liu Hongyu (Ms) |
hongyuliu@pku.edu.cn |
86-10-62750251 |
Department of Microelectronics, School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science |
Qi Jinling (Ms) |
qijinling@pku.edu.cn |
86-10-62765814 |
Department of Electronics, School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science |
Han Xuewei (Ms) |
hanxuewei@pku.edu.cn |
86-10-62765792 |
Department of Machine Intelligence, School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science |
Wu Guijing (Ms) |
wuguijing@pku.edu.cn |
86-10-62757549 |
School of Arts |
Li Tingting (Ms) |
litt@pku.edu.cn |
86-10-62753176 |
Department of Philosophy |
Duan Rui (Mr) |
zhexuexi@pku.edu.cn |
86-10-62755468 |
School of Government |
Zhao Kai (Mr) |
Zhaokai1223@pku.edu.cn |
86-10-62751645 |
School of Chinese as a Second Language |
Zhan Chengfeng (Mr) |
zcf@pku.edu.cn |
86-10-62756341 |
Department of Chinese Language and Literature |
Jiang Bing (Ms) |
jiangbing77@pku.edu.cn |
86-10-62750955 |
Postdoctoral Affairs Management Office
Fan Deshang (Dr)
Tel: 86-10-62751229
Email: boguanban@pku.edu.cn
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