In this tenth article as part of community voices for our international Grants Awareness Program (iGAP), Chandrika Konwar shares her experience, some to-dos, and tips for a successful Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Research (FNDR) Fellowship application. Chandrika is a Fulbright Nehru Doctoral Research Fellow at California Institute of Technology.

In the eighth article as part of community voices for international grants and fellowships, Shvaita shares her process of acquiring a fully funded Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) research grant and lessons learnt during the journey.

In the fifth article as part of community voices for international grants and fellowships, Shubham shares the to dos, tips and tricks for a successful HFSP application. Shubham is an awardee of 2022 HFSP long term postdoctoral fellowship.

In this series, we ask scientists from different backgrounds, disciplines and career stages to reflect upon their life in lock-down and how it has influenced how they approach doing science. In this article, Ashutosh K Singh writes about how the pandemic should inform our research directions, especially when it comes to finding innovative solutions to new problems. This article was first published on COVID Gyan.