The “IACM (International Association for Computational Mechanics) Fellowships for Early Career Female Researchers” is a fellowship awarded to early-career, female researchers in computational mechanics in the 12th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM XII) & the 6th Asia-Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics (APCOM VI) held in July 2016, Seoul, Korea. Among the approximately 40 female attendees of the 2nd Annual Female Researchers’ Forum, 8 female researchers were awarded with the fellowship. This forum was sponsored by Elsevier.