Duration of Appointment

Fellowships will be in the form of one- to three-year term appointments as Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) staff members to work with O ak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) staff and with other experts in the field to further develop their ideas and to build and test prototypes if necessary. 

In order for such a limited duration development project to be successful, the Program will make available a reasonable amount of capital and operating funds to facilitate these development projects, and the ORNL Neutron Sciences Directorate will make available adequate laboratory space, computer resources, and technical expertise and support as necessary.

A significant aspect of new techniques, instruments, and components development is numerical simulation, and the extensive simulation capabilities used and maintained at ORNL will be made available to the Fellows as well. Fellows will be expected to actively collaborate with relevant experts at ORNL and elsewhere whenever appropriate.

It is recognized that some Fellows may wish to continue to pursue their prior scientific research program at some level in addition to carrying out the development project for which the Fellowship was awarded. In such cases, the Fellowship can be structured to support such activity for up to 25 percent of the Fellow’s time in cases where this appears to be appropriate.