Admission
Are you eligible for admission?
Before sending your application, make sure you respect the eligibility conditions.
To obtain postdoctoral fellow status, a person must meet the following conditions:
- Have obtained a PhD, a post-graduate doctorate, or the equivalent, including any professional specialty degree in medicine, less than five (5) years prior to the start date of the postdoctoral fellowship; this eligibility period may be extended to ten (10) years if the person has left the job market and ceased active research due to parental or adoption leave.
- Provide confirmation that a professor at the Université de Sherbrooke is committed to supervising the applicant and is offering a full-time postdoctoral fellowship to enable the applicant to acquire more specialized or complementary research expertise.
- Provide proof, jointly with the professor accepting responsibility for supervision (hereinafter referred to as the supervisor), that sufficient financial resources will be available for the duration of the fellowship, which is presumed to be the case when the conditions of funding and financial support comply with the requirements of Article 7 of the Policy for hosting and supervising postdoctoral fellows.
Were you invited for a postdoctoral fellowship, but you are not a Canadian citizen?
Duration of the fellowship
The normal duration of a postdoctoral fellowship is two years, renewable one year after assessment, for a maximum of three years. In any case, the minimum duration of a postdoctoral fellowship cannot be less than six months. In the event of a justified interruption (e.g. illness, maternity leave), the fellowship can be extended.