Simons Visiting Professors

The Simons Visiting Professors (SVP) program is funded by the Simons Foundation. Each year, the program supports up to 32 Simons Visiting Professors: distinguished scientists from outside Europe, who wish to combine an invitation to an Oberwolfach Workshop, Mini-Workshop or Arbeitsgemeinschaft with a research visit to a European university for up to three weeks. The program provides each Simons Visiting Professor with support from Oberwolfach amounting to 150 Euro per day of the university visit. Additionally, the participating universities are required to provide accommodation for the duration of the visit at the university, as well as travel expenses within Europe between Oberwolfach and the university, as a matching of this support.

This partnership between the MFO and universities providing matching funds is designed to benefit the scientists, the MFO and participating universities equally by making efficient use of travel funds and travel time in carefully planned combined visits to the MFO and a university. In this way workshop attendance can be combined with individual collaborations and lectures at European universities. The program also helps to quickly disseminate new research results from Oberwolfach workshops directly to a wide audience of researchers and students at participating universities.

The SVP awards are decided by the director on suggestion of the organizers of the activity. Participants who are interested in this award should contact their organizers. Organizers can act as a host for a SVP, but not as a SVP themselves.