Early Career Training

CIFAR fosters the development of the next generation of researchers in Canada and abroad through the direct support of summer and winter schools of advanced study for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows and through the Junior Fellow Academy. In addition, CIFAR provides significant financial support to graduate students and postdoctoral fellows through the funding provided to program members.
Recent annual summer schools have covered areas related to Quantum Materials, Nanoelectronics, and Neural Computation and Adaptive Perception. The Institute has also co-sponsored additional advanced schools in Quantum Information Processing and Neural Computation and Adaptive Perception; the latter look place in India in 2010.

The Junior Fellow Academy is perhaps CIFAR’s most visible program that develops the next generation of research leaders. This is a prestigious fellowship program attracting some of the world’s best early-career researchers to CIFAR and the Canadian research community. In addition to participating in a CIFAR program, Junior Fellows also meet as an academy every eight to ten months to share experiences, research methodologies and other insights that give them the tools to take intellectual risks beyond the boundaries of traditional academic training.