Astra Fellowship January 2026

fellowship 📅 January 5, 2026 – June 30, 2026 📍 Berkeley, USA ★ 0.66

https://constellation.org/programs/astra

Fully funded, in-person programme pairing senior advisors with emerging talent on 5-month technical, governance, strategy, and field-building projects. Two streams: Empirical (ML research in technical safety areas including alignment, control, evals, scalable oversight) and Strategy/Governance. Monthly stipend of $8,400, approximately $15,000 monthly research budget per empirical fellow for compute. Weekly mentorship from industry experts, visa support for international applicants.

Deadlines

application: September 26, 2025 : Applications for January 2026 cohort closed sourced

Topics & tags

#alignment#governance#evals#control

Sources

Provenance: 1 of 1 deadline sourced.

Constellation Astra Fellowship (cohort, trust 0.85) · observed 2026-09-12
" Application Opens: August 28. Application Closes: September 26. Acceptances sent: November 6. Program begins: January 5, 2026. Program ends: March 31, 2026. Extension period: March 31 – June 31 "

Salience signals (score = 0.664)

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First seen 2026-09-12 · last confirmed 2026-09-12 · confidence high