Physics scholarships and fellowships for women, covering particle physics, astrophysics, nuclear physics, condensed matter, and applied physics. Includes major national lab programs and international fellowships.
Deadline: February
Five annual scholarships of $10,000 each awarded to US citizen women pursuing undergraduate or graduate degrees in optics, photoni…
View details →Association for Women in Science
Deadline: February
A $2,500 scholarship awarded annually by the Association for Women in Science to an undergraduate woman studying physics, geophysi…
View details →AWIS / Society of Physics Students
Deadline: March
$2,500 annual award for an exceptional female physics or geoscience undergraduate who excels academically and demonstrates achieve…
View details →American Association of Physics Teachers
Deadline: February
A multi-round competition selecting and training the five-member US team for the International Physics Olympiad (IPhO), progressin…
View details →The Health Physics Society awards $3,500 (plus meeting travel support) to bachelor's, master's, or doctoral students enrolled in h…
View details →Scholarships from the Institute of Physics for people beginning physics teacher training in England, funded in partnership with th…
View details →SPIE
SPIE Student Members who are presenting authors can receive up to $700 (domestic) or $1,000 (international) for travel or a regist…
View details →Society of Physics Students (AIP)
Deadline: March 15
Scholarships for undergraduate SPS members at junior standing or higher, based on physics performance, potential and SPS participa…
View details →Society of Physics Students (AIP)
Deadline: March 15
$6,000 award recognizing the top applicant of the SPS Leadership Scholarship. Open to undergraduate SPS members at junior standing…
View details →Sigma Pi Sigma Physics Honor Society (AIP)
Deadline: March 15 and/or November 15
Supports Sigma Pi Sigma members pursuing further study in physics, astronomy or related fields, judged on academic excellence and …
View details →Society of Physics Students (AIP)
Deadline: March 15
One $2,500 scholarship per year for SPS members transitioning from a two-year college to a physics bachelor's degree program. Requ…
View details →Society of Physics Students (AIP)
Deadline: March 15
Up to two $2,500 awards per year for undergraduate SPS members who demonstrate financial need and are not graduating in the spring…
View details →Society of Physics Students (AIP)
Deadline: March 15
One $2,500 award per year for female sophomore or junior STEM majors who are SPS members at US institutions. Preference goes to ap…
View details →Society of Physics Students (AIP)
Deadline: March 15
One $2,500 award per year for undergraduate SPS members who participate in a teacher education program and aim to teach physics.…
View details →Society of Physics Students (AIP) with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Deadline: March 15
Up to four $2,500 awards for undergraduate physics or astronomy majors who are SPS members, funded by LLNL to build workforce dive…
View details →Society of Physics Students and American Association of Physics Teachers
Deadline: March 15
One $2,500 award per year for junior physics or physics education majors who began at a community college and intend to pursue a c…
View details →The National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Jansky Fellowship supports outstanding early-career postdoctoral researchers to pursue …
View details →51 Pegasi b Fellowship is a physics research fellowship providing funding to early-career researchers.…
View details →Graduate Fellowships for STEM Development (formerly the National Physical Science Consortium) fund graduate study across the physi…
View details →Deadline: Annual; applications open August 1 - December 1
The American Institute of Physics sponsors scientists annually to spend a year providing scientific and analytical expertise to th…
View details →The American Association of Physicists in Medicine runs a 10-week summer fellowship giving undergraduates medical physics research…
View details →A USD 20,000 research prize from the Optica Foundation, plus travel to CLEO, for an early-career researcher working on ultrafast l…
View details →Deadline: Rolling
A no-strings 4,000 dollar cash grant from the Unitary Foundation for work that grows the quantum technology ecosystem, which the f…
View details →Sandia National Laboratories
Deadline: December 31, 2026 (full consideration)
A two-year postdoctoral fellowship, with a possible third year, for self-directed and collaborative research in quantum informatio…
View details →Deadline: 2026-12-14
Up to six fellowships are awarded annually to recognize early-stage academic researchers in the natural sciences and engineering a…
View details →Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
Deadline: 2027-12-31
Lets scientists from developing countries with at least a Master's degree train and do research in an Italian laboratory in the ph…
View details →Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
Deadline: 2026-10-28
Supports postdoctoral scientists conducting independent theoretical, observational or instrumental research in NASA Astrophysics, …
View details →National Science Foundation (NSF)
Deadline: 2026-10-15
Supports recent doctoral scientists in an integrated program of independent research and education in areas supported by the NSF D…
View details →Heising-Simons Foundation
Deadline: 2026-10-02
Postdoctoral fellowship supporting early-career scientists developing cutting-edge astronomical instrumentation, hosted at Carnegi…
View details →Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
Deadline: 2026-10-15
Three-year astrophysics postdoctoral fellowship open to applicants within 24 months of post-PhD research experience as of Septembe…
View details →Carnegie Science Observatories
Postdoctoral fellowships in observational and theoretical astronomy and instrumentation, including the Carnegie Fellowship, Heisin…
View details →The leading international physics competition for secondary school students, held annually since 1967 with national teams in theor…
View details →The UK's national physics competition series for secondary school students, running a graded sequence of rounds through the academ…
View details →A scholarship funded by Jenoptik and administered by SPIE for students on technician-track photonics and optics programmes, typica…
View details →A free quantum information science summer camp run by Sandia National Laboratories for high school students and for teachers, with…
View details →Canadian Light Source
Deadline: April 1
A competitive program at Canada's national synchrotron in Saskatoon in which an educator guides a team of high school or undergrad…
View details →Deadline: April 13
A four-week immersive summer school running June 29 to July 24, 2026 at McCurdy Charter School in Espanola, New Mexico, centred on…
View details →Deadline: April 1
A two-week physics camp held June 8 to 19, 2026 at the New Mexico School for the Arts, reaching its tenth year. The camp is free t…
View details →University of Waterloo Institute for Quantum Computing
A free enrichment program for Canadian high-school students with lectures, discussions and mentoring on quantum mechanics, quantum…
View details →National Institute of Standards and Technology
A seven-week, unpaid summer research internship at NIST's Boulder, Colorado, or Gaithersburg, Maryland, campuses for high school j…
View details →ESPOL Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Matemáticas
ESPOL's national physics olympiad and team contest for secondary students in Ecuador, open to students up to the third year of bac…
View details →Central Commission of the Physics Olympiad
Czech national physics competition for primary and secondary students, organized in categories A to G by school year. Secondary ca…
View details →Sociedade Portuguesa de Física
Deadline: January 29, 2027
Portugal's national physics competition for secondary students, organized by the Portuguese Physical Society from the University o…
View details →Nepal Astronomical Society (NASO)
Annual astronomy olympiad for Nepali school students in a junior category (class 8-10) and a senior category (class 11-12). It run…
View details →Japan Physics Olympiad
A public-interest association that runs the national Physics Challenge contest for people under 20 who have not yet entered univer…
View details →Utrecht University
The Dutch national physics competition, run by Utrecht University, which selects students for the International Physics Olympiad. …
View details →University of Wyoming
A residential academic camp on the UW campus for up to 24 students entering 7th or 8th grade, led by scientists, teachers, and col…
View details →Niels Bohr Institute
National physics olympiad with an initial round at schools, a national final at the Niels Bohr Institute (27-28 November 2026), tr…
View details →National physics olympiad for Austrian pupils with a state competition and a national final of theory and experiment days. Nationa…
View details →Sociedad Mexicana de Fisica
National physics olympiad run by the Sociedad Mexicana de Fisica through state delegations, with a national stage and Mexican team…
View details →CERN
Deadline: January
A prestigious international program at CERN in Geneva inviting undergraduate students in physics, computing, engineering, and math…
View details →American Physical Society
Deadline: February
Established in 1980, this American Physical Society scholarship supports African American, Hispanic American, and Native American …
View details →National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Deadline: February
A 10-to-12-week summer research program, running since 1959, in which undergraduates and graduating seniors conduct radio-astronom…
View details →Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Deadline: January
A 12-week paid summer internship at Fermilab for undergraduate sophomores and juniors majoring in physics, engineering (mechanical…
View details →California Institute of Technology
A ten-week summer research program inviting undergraduates in physics, astronomy, and engineering from any institution to advance …
View details →Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
Deadline: February
A ten-week NSF-funded summer research program at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian in Cambridge, MA, pairing und…
View details →MIT Haystack Observatory
An NSF-funded summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates program at MIT Haystack Observatory in Westford, MA, spanning radio a…
View details →Maria Mitchell Association
An NSF-funded summer astronomy and astrophysics REU on Nantucket, MA, hosted by the Maria Mitchell Association. Six undergraduates…
View details →Deadline: March
A suite of merit- and leadership-based scholarships from the Society of Physics Students for undergraduate physics and astronomy m…
View details →Scholarships from the Optica Foundation (formerly OSA) supporting undergraduate and master's students studying optics, photonics, …
View details →University of Washington
Deadline: February
A 10-week NSF-funded Research Experience for Undergraduates at the University of Washington in Seattle, offering hands-on research…
View details →Chicago Quantum Exchange
Deadline: February
A 10-week residential summer research fellowship run by the Chicago Quantum Exchange placing undergraduates in Quantum Information…
View details →Space Telescope Science Institute
Deadline: January
A summer program at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore that employs about a dozen undergraduates each year to work…
View details →Lunar and Planetary Institute (USRA)
Deadline: December
A ten-week summer research internship operated by the Universities Space Research Association at the Lunar and Planetary Institute…
View details →Princeton University
Deadline: January
An NSF MRSEC-funded Research Experience for Undergraduates in materials science at Princeton, where students work on a mentored re…
View details →SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
A paid summer internship at SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source, where undergraduates work with staff scientists on X-ray free-elec…
View details →Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
A paid summer research internship at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory placing undergraduates on fusion-energy and plasma-sc…
View details →Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
A summer honors program at Jefferson Lab giving high-achieving high-school students hands-on experience in nuclear and accelerator…
View details →Old Dominion University / Jefferson Lab
Deadline: February 21
An NSF-funded Research Experience for Undergraduates run jointly by Old Dominion University and Jefferson Lab, placing students on…
View details →Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
A paid summer internship at LLNL's National Ignition Facility and Photon Science directorate, placing undergraduate and graduate s…
View details →University of Notre Dame
Deadline: February 16
An NSF-funded Research Experience for Undergraduates at the University of Notre Dame placing students on physics and astronomy res…
View details →Northern Arizona University
Deadline: February 1
An NSF-funded REU at Northern Arizona University in astronomy and planetary science, giving undergraduates mentored research and a…
View details →Georgia Institute of Technology
Deadline: February 27
An NSF-funded Research Experience for Undergraduates in the Georgia Tech School of Physics, placing students on research across co…
View details →University of Florida
Deadline: February 1
An NSF-funded astronomy Research Experience for Undergraduates at the University of Florida, with mentored research, a stipend, an…
View details →University of Wisconsin-Madison
Deadline: February 15
An NSF-funded astronomy Research Experience for Undergraduates at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, offering mentored research …
View details →Ohio State University
Deadline: February 19
An NSF materials-research-center REU at Ohio State's Center for Emergent Materials, placing undergraduates on condensed-matter and…
View details →Rice University
Deadline: March 1, 2026
A ten-week NSF REU at Rice University offering undergraduates research projects in atomic physics, quantum optics, nanophotonics, …
View details →University of Arizona
Deadline: February 14, 2026
An REU hosted by the NSF Center for Quantum Networks at the University of Arizona, engaging undergraduates in quantum networking a…
View details →Louisiana State University
Deadline: February 1, 2026
An NSF REU in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Louisiana State University offering undergraduates mentored research in p…
View details →Los Alamos National Laboratory
Mentored research internships across technical and scientific fields (physics, computing, engineering and more) at Los Alamos Nati…
View details →University of Kentucky
A 10-week NSF-funded REU for ten students in nuclear physics, condensed matter physics, and astronomy, providing a stipend plus tr…
View details →University of California, Santa Barbara
A 9-week NSF-funded summer research program in physics and astronomy spanning astrophysics, particle physics, and condensed matter…
View details →University of Rochester
Deadline: January
A 10-week NSF-funded REU supporting ten students in supervised physics and astronomy research projects, with a stipend plus housin…
View details →University of Utah
Deadline: February 1, 2026
A 10-week REU (May 21 to August 1, 2026) spanning astronomy, astroparticle physics, biophysics, condensed matter, high energy phys…
View details →Brigham Young University
Deadline: February 7, 2026
A 10-week physics and astronomy REU (June 1 to August 7, 2026) with a $7,000 stipend plus housing and travel. NSF REU spots are re…
View details →University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Deadline: January 30, 2026
A 10-week NSF-sponsored physics REU (May 26 to July 31, 2026) covering astrophysics, AMO, biological physics, condensed matter, hi…
View details →Queensborough Community College (CUNY)
NSF-funded Research Experience for Undergraduates at CUNY's Queensborough Community College, offering summer research in physics, …
View details →University of Colorado Boulder (Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics)
NSF-funded Boulder Solar Alliance Research Experience for Undergraduates, hosted through CU Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric a…
View details →Brandeis University
NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) Research Experience for Undergraduates at Brandeis University, offer…
View details →University of Texas at Austin / McDonald Observatory
UT Austin Astronomy NSF REU Program is a physics summer research program at University of Texas at Austin / McDonald Observatory o…
View details →University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy
Institute for Astronomy REU is a physics summer research program at University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy offering hands-on…
View details →Deadline: January
USA Astronomy and Astrophysics Olympiad (USAAAO) is a physics STEM competition open to students.…
View details →Ohio State University
Deadline: 2026-02-17
An NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates program at Ohio State University's NeXUS facility focused on ultrafast laser scienc…
View details →Rochester Institute of Technology
Deadline: 2026-02-27
An NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates program at the Rochester Institute of Technology in gravitational-wave and multimes…
View details →University of Rochester
Three NSF REU tracks (Photonics; Data Science for Music/Media/Minds; Physics & Astronomy) with stipends for visiting undergraduate…
View details →University of Toronto
16-week astronomy and astrophysics research program with the Department of Astronomy and Dunlap Institute; open to students at Can…
View details →Texas A&M University - Cyclotron Institute
An NSF-funded summer REU at the Texas A&M Cyclotron Institute in which undergraduates conduct mentored research in nuclear and par…
View details →West Virginia University
An NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates site at West Virginia University in astrophysics and plasma physics.…
View details →Washington University in St. Louis
A 10-week REU at Washington University in St. Louis applying artificial intelligence to modern physics research.…
View details →The National Quantum Computing Centre's annual hackathon for students and early-career researchers, who use quantum algorithms and…
View details →An annual international astronomy and astrophysics competition for secondary school students, with theoretical, data-analysis, and…
View details →A global team-based competition ('Physics World Cup') where high school teams research ~17 open-ended physics problems and defend …
View details →Student and graduate pathways at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, which operates the OPAL research reac…
View details →Deadline: 31 March annually
Bursaries from the Royal Astronomical Society enabling motivated undergraduates considering a research career to spend part of the…
View details →Summer school and research internship programs run by the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario, for un…
View details →SPIE's main scholarship programme for students studying optics, photonics, or a related discipline, open to SPIE Student Members a…
View details →The Astrophysics Summer Program for International Research Experience, an eight-week on-site research placement at the Anton Panne…
View details →Deadline: February 1
A 10- to 11-week paid summer research assistantship at the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia, home of the world's largest fu…
View details →TRIUMF
A paid four-month summer fellowship at TRIUMF, Canada's particle accelerator centre in Vancouver, for undergraduates enrolled at a…
View details →TRIUMF
Work-integrated learning placements at TRIUMF for undergraduates considering a research career. Roughly 100 co-operative education…
View details →Deadline: February
A 7.5-week summer research programme at DESY in Hamburg or Zeuthen, Germany for undergraduates in physics and related disciplines …
View details →An NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates program run by NOIRLab at its site in La Serena, Chile, during the Chilean s…
View details →Deadline: January 17, 2026
A three-week paid onsite internship at Fermilab that gives physics undergraduates — plus students in mathematics, computer science…
View details →A free three-week virtual training institute run by The Coding School covering quantum computing foundations, quantum cybersecurit…
View details →University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
A ten-week paid summer co-op at the Illinois Quantum Information Science and Technology Center that pairs undergraduates with facu…
View details →A six-week virtual summer school from the Co-design Center for Quantum Advantage (C2QA), the Department of Energy quantum research…
View details →University of Waterloo
Deadline: January
A two-week school at the Institute for Quantum Computing combining lectures with hands-on quantum laboratory work, aimed primarily…
View details →University of Toronto
Deadline: January 20
Prize scholarships from the Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control that fund advanced undergraduates for four months o…
View details →SNOLAB
Deadline: Varies by term
Paid four- to sixteen-month work terms at SNOLAB, the deep underground astroparticle physics laboratory about 25 km from Sudbury, …
View details →Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering
An annual school for senior undergraduate students at AINSE member universities, introducing them to research in nuclear science a…
View details →Purdue University
Deadline: February 1
An NSF-funded 10-week summer research programme in Purdue's Department of Physics and Astronomy, open to U.S. citizens and permane…
View details →University of Colorado Boulder
A summer REU at the University of Colorado Boulder run jointly with JILA, running May 26 to July 31 in 2026. Undergraduates are pa…
View details →Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (TIFR)
A long-running undergraduate research initiative of the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (TIFR) in Mumbai, launched in 200…
View details →A two-month research placement in Italy for US students, financed jointly by the US Department of Energy and Italy's National Inst…
View details →Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad
Deadline: 31 January
An eight-week summer research programme at TIFR Hyderabad running from May to July, open to students in the final year of a three-…
View details →The Akamai Internship Program places college students from Hawai'i in summer projects at the major telescopes on Maunakea and Hale…
View details →Paul Scherrer Institute
An eight- to twelve-week paid summer research internship at the Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland's largest research centre for…
View details →University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
An eleven-week funded summer research programme run by the Biophysical Society and hosted at the University of North Carolina at C…
View details →International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS-TIFR)
A summer research internship at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences in Bengaluru, part of the Tata Institute of Fund…
View details →Yale University
An NSF REU site run by Yale's Integrated Graduate Program in Physical and Engineering Biology, training undergraduates in quantita…
View details →Black Hills State University
An NSF REU site placing undergraduates in underground physics, biology and chemistry research at the Sanford Underground Research …
View details →Boston University
An NSF REU site in the Boston University physics department offering summer research projects across physics, chemistry and materi…
View details →The Catholic University of America
An NSF REU site in Washington, DC, offering projects in nuclear and particle physics experiment and theory, detector development a…
View details →Colorado State University
An NSF REU site at Colorado State University in high power laser science and technology, with projects in laser fusion, EUV source…
View details →Columbia University
An NSF REU site at Columbia University's Nevis Laboratories in experimental high energy physics and experimental astroparticle phy…
View details →Duke University
An NSF REU site at the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory at Duke University, offering undergraduate research in nuclear and…
View details →East Texas A&M University
An NSF REU site built specifically for community college students, offering summer research in nuclear physics, astrophysics, astr…
View details →Howard University
An NSF REU site at Howard University offering summer research in condensed matter physics, optics and laser spectroscopy, and chem…
View details →Kansas State University
An NSF REU site at Kansas State University on laser-matter interactions at the atomic and nanoscale, spanning atomic, molecular an…
View details →Lehigh University
An NSF REU site in the Lehigh University physics department with projects in astronomy and astrophysics, atomic molecular and opti…
View details →Northwestern University
An NSF REU programme at Northwestern's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics, with projects on bla…
View details →Pennsylvania State University
An NSF REU site in the Penn State physics department spanning astroparticle physics, cosmology, gravitational waves, atomic and mo…
View details →Texas A&M University
An NSF REU site at the Texas A&M Cyclotron Institute offering undergraduate research in nuclear science and physics.…
View details →Texas Christian University
An NSF REU site at Texas Christian University with projects in molecular physics, quantum physics, chemical physics, astronomy and…
View details →University of California, Berkeley
An NSF REU-funded summer internship at the Berkeley SETI Research Center working with the Breakthrough Listen project on technosig…
View details →University of Central Florida
An NSF REU site at CREOL, UCF's College of Optics and Photonics, covering lasers, optics, photonics, semiconductors, laser diagnos…
View details →University of Kansas
An NSF REU site at the University of Kansas covering astronomy, astrophysics, high energy theory, condensed matter theory and expe…
View details →University of Maryland, College Park
An NSF REU site at the University of Maryland's Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics, covering nonlinear dyna…
View details →University of Miami
An NSF REU site in the University of Miami physics department covering materials transport, instrumentation development, theoretic…
View details →University of Michigan
An NSF REU site sending University of Michigan-selected undergraduates and high school teachers to CERN in Switzerland for summer …
View details →University of Michigan
An NSF-funded centre REU site at the University of Michigan offering interdisciplinary undergraduate research in biophysics.…
View details →University of Oklahoma
An NSF REU and RET site at the University of Oklahoma with theoretical and experimental projects in astrophysics, atomic molecular…
View details →University of Rochester
An NSF REU at the University of Rochester's Institute of Optics creating a pipeline into photonics careers, with research at the f…
View details →University of South Carolina
An NSF REU site at the University of South Carolina in condensed matter physics, quantum physics, nuclear and particle physics, an…
View details →University of Texas at Dallas
An NSF REU site in the UT Dallas physics department where fellows select from experimental, computational and theoretical projects…
View details →University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
An NSF REU and RET site at UTRGV covering astronomy, bioacoustics, gravitational wave detector characterisation and particle swarm…
View details →University of Toledo
An NSF REU site at the University of Toledo in atomic, molecular and optical physics, astronomy and astrophysics, condensed matter…
View details →University of Washington
An NSF REU site in the University of Washington physics department with experimental and theoretical projects in nuclear and parti…
View details →Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
An NSF REU site in the Virginia Tech physics department dedicated to neutrino physics research.…
View details →Washington State University
An NSF REU site at Washington State University on wave physics across scales, covering condensed matter, atomic and molecular phys…
View details →Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
A paid three-month summer internship for undergraduate and graduate students working with LLNL scientists on quantum sensing, enta…
View details →Brookhaven National Laboratory
A four-week paid summer research experience in which college freshmen and sophomores use particle accelerators, synchrotron light …
View details →SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Interns work up to twelve weeks between May and September on technical, administrative or scientific tasks at SLAC National Accele…
View details →Fermilab / US CMS Collaboration
A 10-week paid research internship in which undergraduates analyse CMS particle physics data from CERN's Large Hadron Collider wit…
View details →McMaster University
A joint McMaster University/Canadian Nuclear Laboratories summer research award of $10,000 for Level 2-4 Science and Engineering u…
View details →ESRF / ILL
Deadline: 2026-02-28
Four-week joint summer programme in Grenoble for undergraduates from ESRF/ILL member countries, combining introductory lectures on…
View details →Science and Technology Facilities Council
UK undergraduate summer placement (typically 4-12 weeks) at an STFC national laboratory such as Rutherford Appleton, Daresbury, or…
View details →GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research
Eight-week international summer research program (around 35 participants) at the GSI/FAIR heavy-ion accelerator lab for advanced u…
View details →ICFO - The Institute of Photonic Sciences
Twelve-week paid summer research fellowship for outstanding undergraduate or Master's students, ideally in their last two years of…
View details →Australian National University
Deadline: 2026-10-23
Ten-week summer research placements for third- or fourth-year honours-track undergraduates at Australian or New Zealand universiti…
View details →American Physical Society
Recognizes outstanding achievement in physics by undergraduates at U.S. colleges and universities; two awards are made each year, …
View details →Society of Physics Students / American Institute of Physics
Deadline: 2027-01-05
Ten-week paid summer internships in Washington, D.C. in policy, communication, research or education, with a competitive stipend, …
View details →American Association of Physics Teachers
Deadline: 2026-12-01
Need-based scholarship of up to $3,000, renewable for up to four years, with a one-year AAPT student membership, for U.S. citizens…
View details →University of Rochester
Ten-week NSF REU for about ten U.S. citizen or permanent resident undergraduates, with a $7,000 stipend, housing for non-local stu…
View details →Stony Brook University
Deadline: 2027-02-01
NSF Physics and Astronomy REU for U.S. citizen or permanent resident undergraduates; application review for Summer 2027 begins Jan…
View details →Society of Physics Students
Awards SPS national members who are undergraduates up to $2,000 for travel and registration to an AIP member society meeting, plus…
View details →Society of Physics Students
Up to five $10,000 scholarships for undergraduate SPS national members in physics and astronomy, with preference for third- and fo…
View details →The Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc)
Six-to-eight-week summer visits (May to July) in theoretical physics, mathematics, theoretical computer science and computational …
View details →Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA)
Project-based summer and vacation research at IUCAA in Pune for BSc, BE/BTech, MSc and ME/MTech students with strong physics and m…
View details →KEK (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization)
Up to eight weeks (mid-June to mid-August) of research at KEK Tsukuba or J-PARC for late-undergraduate and master's students. Non-…
View details →European Southern Observatory (ESO)
Six-week, fully funded research placement at ESO headquarters in Garching, Germany, for astronomy and astrophysics students not ye…
View details →IBM Quantum
Annual series of quantum computing events (workshops, coding challenges, hackathons, talks) created and hosted by university stude…
View details →PennyLane (Xanadu)
Deadline: 2026-10-23
Annual quantum computing hackathon powered by PennyLane with coding challenges in algorithms, chemistry and applications, open to …
View details →Sanford Underground Research Facility
Ten-week summer internships at Sanford Lab in Lead, South Dakota, in departments including science, engineering, operations, educa…
View details →Instituto Balseiro
Summer scholarships at Instituto Balseiro in Bariloche, Argentina for students completing science and engineering degrees at Argen…
View details →Oklahoma State University
NSF-funded summer research experience in physics at Oklahoma State University, with stipend, travel, housing and meals covered. Th…
View details →ETH Zurich, University of Zurich, EPFL and University of Bern
Nine-week summer program organized by the particle physics groups of ETH Zurich, University of Zurich, EPFL and University of Bern…
View details →Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
Fully funded internships of up to three months in Heidelberg for bachelor and master students worldwide in astronomy research and …
View details →Florida State University / University of Florida (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory)
Deadline: 2027-01-08
A 10-week summer NSF REU at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (Tallahassee or Gainesville) with research in physics, che…
View details →Cornell University
NSF-funded summer REU in the Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-based Sciences and Education covering accelerator physics, microwa…
View details →Weizmann Institute of Science
One-week summer schools in physics and chemistry led by Weizmann professors, for strong students at Israeli universities who have …
View details →University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ten-week summer research experience at the UW-Madison Materials Research Science and Engineering Center for off-campus undergradua…
View details →Raman Research Institute
Year-round program placing undergraduate and master's students, or recent graduates, on a research project with RRI staff in Benga…
View details →S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences
Summer project programme in Kolkata for advanced B.Sc. and M.Sc. students in physics, chemistry, mathematics and related areas, wo…
View details →AVS Vacuum Technology Division
An annual competition encouraging graduate and undergraduate students to showcase creative student-built vacuum systems at the AVS…
View details →OBA - Olimpiada Brasileira de Astronomia e Astronautica
Brazilian astronomy and astronautics olympiad, alongside the rocketry olympiad OBAFOG, open to public and private schools with stu…
View details →Associazione per l'Insegnamento della Fisica (AIF)
Italian Physics Championships for high school students, organized by AIF in school, local and national rounds that select Italy's …
View details →Sociedade Brasileira de Fisica (SBF)
Brazilian Physics Olympiad of the Sociedade Brasileira de Fisica for students from the 6th year of elementary school through the 3…
View details →American Association of Physicists in Medicine
Deadline: February 9, 2027
Ten-week mentored summer research fellowship in medical physics for undergraduates in physics, engineering or related sciences, wi…
View details →General Atomics, DIII-D National Fusion Facility
DOE-sponsored SULI and Community College Internships hosted at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility and General Atomics inertial fu…
View details →Mayo Clinic
Deadline: Applications open Dec. 1 and close Feb. 5
This 10-week fellowship in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Mayo Clinic's Phoenix/Scottsdale campus has fellows complete a …
View details →Washington University School of Medicine
Deadline: January 15
The WashU Medicine Department of Radiation Oncology places rising junior and senior undergraduates in medical physics research for…
View details →Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems
Research projects of up to 90 days in biological physics for master's and senior bachelor's students in physics or related fields,…
View details →International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
An IAEA fellowship providing up to €40,000 in total support for women pursuing a master's degree in nuclear science, engineering, …
View details →Deadline: May 30
An IEEE Photonics Society scholarship recognizing graduate students conducting research in photonics, optics, and optoelectronics.…
View details →Acoustical Society of America
A $30,000 annual scholarship for a U.S. graduate student in architectural acoustics or noise control, one of several Acoustical So…
View details →AVS (the professional society for surface science, thin films, vacuum, and nanoscience) awards the Dorothy M. and Earl S. Hoffman …
View details →Perimeter Scholars International (PSI) is a physics research fellowship providing funding to early-career researchers.…
View details →A joint venture of Macquarie University, UNSW, the University of Sydney, and UTS that builds quantum-technology pathways from unde…
View details →An American Physical Society initiative that connects students who want to pursue a physics PhD but need additional preparation wi…
View details →An intensive pre-PhD postgraduate diploma programme at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy, aimed a…
View details →University of Massachusetts Amherst
A week-long summer school at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, 21–27 June 2026, on the computational methods that quantum i…
View details →A national student award from AVS recognising excellence in graduate research in the sciences and technologies the society covers,…
View details →Deadline: March
A set of named graduate fellowships from the Health Physics Society for students entering or continuing full-time study in US grad…
View details →A ten-week workshop at Los Alamos National Laboratory running June 1 to August 7, 2026, in which participants work in teams of two…
View details →Australian Institute of Physics
An annual medal from the Australian Institute of Physics for the most outstanding Honours or Masters thesis in physics by a studen…
View details →Astronomical Society of Australia
Awarded annually by the Astronomical Society of Australia together with the Australian Academy of Science for outstanding research…
View details →The South African Radio Astronomy Observatory - the NRF national facility that operates the MeerKAT telescope and hosts South Afri…
View details →A multi-institutional South African training programme funded by DSI-NRF and running since 2003 across three nodes: the University…
View details →The South African Astronomical Observatory - the NRF national facility for optical and infrared astronomy - maintains the country'…
View details →The Society of Rheology runs an annual Rheology Research Symposium immediately before its Annual Meeting, and all participants are…
View details →Universities Research Association / Fermilab
Deadline: February 22, 2027
Awards of up to $50,000 support faculty, postdocs and graduate students from URA member universities visiting Fermilab, in areas i…
View details →Deadline: March
A$5,000 stipend from the Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering supporting an Honours or Master's research projec…
View details →Society of Physics Students / Sigma Pi Sigma
Deadline: 2026-11-15
A $15,000 annual scholarship for one early-career physics or related-field graduate student who is a Sigma Pi Sigma member or SPS …
View details →Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
Three ICTP master's programmes run with partner universities, aimed at students from developing countries: Physics of Complex Syst…
View details →California Institute of Technology (NASA Exoplanet Science Institute)
Hybrid workshop on exoplanet masses in the era of Gaia and extreme precision radial velocities, held July 19-23, 2027 at Caltech. …
View details →ICTP
Regional center in Sao Paulo hosting seminars, minicourses, schools and workshops for graduate students and researchers in theoret…
View details →AVS: Science and Technology of Materials, Interfaces, and Processing
Recognizes and encourages excellence by women in graduate studies in the sciences and technologies of interest to AVS; nominees mu…
View details →AVS: Science and Technology of Materials, Interfaces, and Processing
Recognizes and encourages excellence in continuing graduate studies in vacuum science and related technologies; nominees must be r…
View details →Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP)
HIP's annual summer job positions at CERN and at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), covering topics such as LHC p…
View details →African School of Physics
ASP is a biennial school, begun in 2010, that promotes physics as an engine for development in Africa, with programs for universit…
View details →ICTP-East African Institute for Fundamental Research / University of Rwanda
EAIFR runs a two-year MSc in physics at the University of Rwanda's Nyarugenge Campus in Kigali, with graduates receiving a master'…
View details →Krell Institute / DOE NNSA
A fully funded graduate fellowship supporting PhD students whose research addresses challenges in stewardship science, including h…
View details →A doctoral scholarship fund administered by the Institute of Physics, endowed by Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, supporting full-time a…
View details →Deadline: 31 August
A $6,000 scholarship administered by Royal Society Te Aparangi for PhD students at New Zealand universities in the physical scienc…
View details →Deadline: April 20 and October 20 annually
A research studentship at the European Southern Observatory for students already enrolled in a PhD programme in astronomy or a rel…
View details →University of Bristol
Deadline: Applications for September 2027 entry open autumn 2026
An EPSRC-funded doctoral training centre in superconductivity run collaboratively by the Universities of Bristol, Cambridge and Ox…
View details →University of Strathclyde
Deadline: Applications for 2027/2028 entry open November 2026
A fully funded PhD training centre in applied quantum technologies led by the University of Strathclyde with the University of Gla…
View details →Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY
A Helmholtz Information and Data Science research school in Hamburg, Germany, training doctoral researchers at the interface of da…
View details →A summer school at Los Alamos National Laboratory built around three pillars: foundational space physics and magnetosphere dynamic…
View details →Australian Institute of Physics
An annual medal from the Australian Institute of Physics awarded for the most outstanding PhD thesis in physics or its application…
View details →Funds PhD candidates at AINSE member universities holding an RTP scholarship or equivalent whose project involves ANSTO facilities…
View details →Institut Laue-Langevin
The ILL Graduate School funds about a dozen new three-year PhD projects each year in condensed matter physics, chemistry, material…
View details →Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO)
ICFO in Barcelona offers fully funded PhD fellowships to students with an internationally recognized Master's-equivalent degree in…
View details →CERN
CERN's Doctoral Student Programme lets PhD candidates in applied physics, engineering or computing spend up to 36 months conductin…
View details →Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI)
GSSI in L'Aquila, Italy, announces PhD calls for academic year 2026/2027 including Astroparticle Physics/Computer Science/Regional…
View details →Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) and IAEA
Fellowships for PhD students from developing countries in physics and mathematics, who stay enrolled at their home universities an…
View details →The American Physical Society (APS) offers multiple awards including the Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Doctoral Dissertation Award. The Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellowships ($50,000/year) are highly competitive and include physics. NSF GRFP funds women in physics at the graduate level. The Society of Physics Students has undergraduate scholarship programs.
Yes — DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) placements at Fermilab, SLAC, CERN-affiliated programs, and other national labs are available and competitive for women graduate students. The DOE NNSA Stewardship Science Graduate Fellowship covers nuclear physics specifically.
The Brooke Owens Fellowship places women in aerospace/astrophysics internships at leading companies and institutions. NASA Internships are available at all career levels. The American Astronomical Society has fellowship and award programs for women in astronomy.