Applicants are requested to submit documents electronically

1. ORD Grant: First stage please apply by email; second stage please apply by Electronic Records.
2. Appropriation plan: Please apply by Electronic Records.

For the above two methods, please complete the relevant forms, prepare the electronic attachments, and send them electronically.

Updated on January. 14, 2025

1. Guidelines for Subsidizing Postdoctoral Researchers by the Office of Research and Development (ORD Grant): Please check the files below, file mumber 2.
2. Guidelines for Subsidizing Postdoctoral Researchers by the Office of Research and Development (Appropriation plan): Please check the files below, file mumber 3.

Regular members of NTU full-time faculty and research fellows

1. An applicant shall have an ongoing or soon-to-begin research project funded by the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC).

(1) The applicant must provide the list of approved NSTC research projects, which may be general intradisciplinary research projects or interdisciplinary competitive projects (e.g. projects under the Academic Summit Program or other interdisciplinary programs). Planning and promotion projects, international cooperation projects, and industrial-academic cooperation projects are not included.

(2) Should the applicant have already been granted a quota of postdoctoral research fellows approved by the NSTC (including those approved in research projects or postdoctoral research fellow recruitment), this quota shall be used first, and relevant documents of proof shall be provided. After the NSTC quota is fulfilled, the applicant can then submit an application for NTU’s quota of postdoctoral research fellows.

(3) Should a total of two or more postdoctoral research fellows have been hired with the applicant’s research funding for different projects, and the applicant intends to apply for another postdoctoral research fellow, the standards of external reviews for both the applicant and the candidate will be raised, with an emphasis on whether the hiring will be beneficial for advancing new research domains.

(4) If no quota of postdoctoral research fellow has been granted in the applicant’s list of approved NSTC research projects, the applicant submit a rolling application to the NSTC first. The applicant can then provide relevant documents of proof and submit an application to the Office of Research and Development (ORD).

2. For renewal applications, the applicant must conduct NSTC research projects.

1. Ordinary status: The candidate must have published at least 1 journal article as the first or corresponding author within the 5-year period prior to the appointment. During the review, the quality and quantity of eligible articles shall be considered against the number of years elapsed since the candidate obtained their doctoral degree. For candidates who have completed the doctoral degree for five years or more, the academic standards will be increased accordingly. In principle, reappointment reviews shall be focused on the candidate’s research progress in the previous year, and approval shall only be granted if the applicant is currently undertaking a National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) research project.

2. Other identities:

(1) Alternatively, the candidate may be a graduating advisee of the applicant: The goal of this paragraph is to increase the completion rate and quality of candidates’ doctoral dissertations, and in turn, the quality of the research project itself. Therefore, a “graduating advisee” herein shall be a doctoral candidate who has passed the oral defense but has yet to complete the school-leaving procedures at the time of application. If the candidate has already completed the school-leaving procedures, then the application shall be reviewed to determine whether it conforms to the spirit of this subparagraph.

(2) Pronatalist and child-rearing policies: If the candidate has not published any first-author or corresponding-author papers within the past five years due to childbirth may submit sufficient supporting documents to apply for an extension of two years per child. Acceptable sufficient supporting documents include a copy of the household registration record, birth certificates, or household registration transcripts, among others.

Rolling application

• The employment period for postdoctoral research fellows is one year and may be renewed annually.
• Postdoctoral research fellows who are foreign nationals may be reimbursed for a one-way flight ticket. Reappointed research fellows are not eligible for reimbursement.
• Postdoctoral research fellows with outstanding performance may be subsequently hired as teaching and research personnel for other projects.