Fellowship Opportunities
The Centre for Machine Intelligence (CMI) hosts an active cohort of three current AI Fellows, and welcomes enquiries about those interested in winning a Fellowship to be hosted within the CMI. Relevant funding opportunities can be found below.
We encourage applications from researchers whose work aligns with our and who are interested in collaborating with our expert team.
How to Apply
If you are applying for an external fellowship and would like to be hosted at the CMI, to discuss your application and how it aligns with our research. We can help identify potential supervisors and explore how your work fits within our research environment. You will also need to be hosted in a Faculty and School. Please see the links below for the relevant faculty contacts to apply.
- For the Faculty of Health, please contact the relevant School Director of Research and Innovation - new fellowship page coming soon
Why Choose CMI?
We offer a thriving, interdisciplinary research environment, fostering collaboration across AI disciplines. Fellows hosted with us gain access to our expertise, resources, and a vibrant AI research community, supporting innovation and impactful research.
Current opportunities:
- – Offers flexible, long-term support for exceptional early-career researchers who require a flexible working pattern due to personal circumstances.
- Deadline: 28 October 2025
External AI Fellowship opportunities:
- - Offers Research Fellowships each year to outstanding early-career researchers to support them to become future research leaders in engineering.
- - Invites applications for DSIT secondments in science, innovation and technology.
- – Develops the next generation of research and innovation leaders through substantial support for ambitious projects in academia or business.
- Deadline: Internal selection expected December 2025; UKRI call opens February 2026
- – Supports early-career researchers ready to work independently on pioneering projects at the frontiers of science.
- – Supports mid-career researchers to establish or strengthen independent research teams through ambitious, frontier-pushing scientific projects in Europe.
- – Supports mid-career research leaders with long-term funding to build outstanding research teams and tackle challenging STEM questions.
- – Supports researchers and innovators at any career stage to scale transformative climate solutions that strengthen global resilience and sustainability.
- – Annual funding for AI researchers through The Alan Turing Institute.
- - Provides funding for early-career international researchers to undertake research in the UK and build global collaborations.
- Supports researchers applying AI to advance scientific breakthroughs in various disciplines.
- - The Max Planck Society and the Weizmann Institute of Science offer a prestigious four-year postdoctoral program.
- – Supports outstanding early-career scientists with the potential to become research leaders through long-term, flexible funding for innovative research.
- - A three year award made to an annual cohort of outstanding early career researchers in the humanities or social sciences.
- - Supports postdoctoral researchers in pursuing international mobility and high-quality research across Europe and globally.