Fellowship Details

The Family Larsson-Rosenquist Foundation Fellowship Program funds postdoctoral positions located at one of five independent research centers in Australia, England, Switzerland, or the United States.

Each Fellowship grant will focus on a different interdisciplinary project, envisaged as the seed of a longer-term, innovative research exploration in the field. The Fellowships offer postdoctoral students the unique opportunity to kick-start their own specialty focus and make a real impact on human milk and breastfeeding research, while joining a collective that can shape the future.

We look at the Fellowship Program as an incubator of sorts – from helping leaders advance their careers to nudging mid-career researchers to achieve their full scientific potential, or nurturing future brainpower to impact the world.

By joining the Fellowship Program, you will have the opportunity to co-develop projects with highly experienced principal investigators. While you will shape the initial concept and outline specific aims together, you will lead the project independently with your own ideas. Moreover, there is a possibility to dive into a project for more than two years; postdocs can be extended up to five years.


Additional benefits

You will obtain highly individualized leadership training. This will equip you with strategies for developing practical leadership skills, conflict management techniques, and influence as you take on more responsibility. To put your new leadership skillset to use, you can work for the Family Larsson-Rosenquist Foundation for a couple of weeks during the program. The experience can help you gain relevant business skills and confidence as you are translating knowledge into practice with real time impact.

Postdoctoral researchers, the respective principal investigators, and other experts in the field will also have a chance to meet face to face during an annual conference focused on human milk and breastfeeding research.

When you join the Fellowship Program, you will automatically join an Alumni Club. The AC can help you build the foundation for a lifelong, professional network. In the AC, you will take part in networking opportunities that connect you with current students and alumni, thus establishing a supportive community for your career journey. 


Eligible candidates for the Fellowship Program:

  • Have an outstanding academic record

  • Have obtained (or will soon obtain) a degree from a recognized university

  • Have demonstrated leadership potential

  • Are citizens of any country, though applications from low-resource settings are encouraged


After an initial selection, candidates will be invited for interviews via video conference discussions with a panel of experts including the principal investigators, other GHMRC professors, and the funder. Candidates can expect a lively conversation about the project, including how the topic can be developed in the future.


During interviews candidates can expect the following in an open discussion:

  • Introduce yourself, your past work experience, why you applied, and what you enjoy doing in your free time

  • Be prepared to speak about your published research, outlining the most important findings and how they have advanced their respective fields

  • Be ready to discuss how your prior work has prepared you for this project and position

  • Be able to elaborate on how you believe the topic fits into the wider landscape of human milk and breastfeeding research as well as how the topic of the project can be developed in the future

  • Be prepared to talk about the project’s relevance to achieving the SDGs, and how you are the ideal candidate to develop your vision and the project accordingly


Candidates will be selected based on their academic credentials and leadership potential.


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