Call for Applications: TWAS Visiting Expert Programme 2025/2026

Are you a person or an organization from a less developed or developing nation? The 2025–2026 TWAS Visting Expert Program is now accepting applications. To apply and learn more about this job, interested candidates can click here.

About TWAS Visiting Expert

Opportunity Details

Date Published: August 27, 2025
Application Deadline: October 06, 2025
Category: PhD Women Fully Funded Postdoctoral

This programme provides institutions and research groups in developing countries, especially the Least Developed Countries and those with limited outside contacts, with opportunities to establish long-term links with world leaders in areas of science other than mathematics and physics, and help develop capacity-building in their country.

Sponsor Organisation: The World Academy of Science (TWAS)

Benefits of TWAS Visiting Expert

TWAS will provide the Visting Expert with the most direct economy class travel (round-trip) while the host institution is expected to cover local expenses.

TWAS Visiting Expert Requirements

Only persons who have attained international recognition in their fields of science will be considered for support under the programme
As the programme is striving towards providing equal opportunities,nominations of women will be particularly welcomed.

Application Date and Process

Institutions wishing to be considered for this programme must complete the online application form by clicking on the 'Apply now' button at the bottom of this page. While filling in the online application, the following documentation needs to be uploaded:

brief CV of the Visiting Expert (maximum 10 pages) and list of publications;
letter from the Visiting Expert detailing the research and teaching programme with which he/she could assist at the host institute (template available in the online form);
supporting statement from the head of the host institution (template available in the online form).

Please be advised that applicants may apply for only one programme per calendar year in the TWAS and OWSD portfolio. Applicants will not be eligible to visit another institution in that year under the TWAS Visiting Professor programmes. One exception: the head of an institution who invites an external scholar to share his/her expertise under the TWAS Visiting Professor programmes may still apply for another programme.

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