DOE accepting proposals for early career research program
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is currently accepting proposals for its DOE Office of Science Early Career Research Program.
The program, in its 10th year, is designed to support the research of outstanding scientists early in their careers. The program will support over 50 early career researchers for a period of five years. The typical university awards amounts are $750,000 over five years.
To be eligible, a researcher must be an untenured, tenure-track assistant or associate professor at a U.S. academic institution or a full-time employee at a DOE national laboratory. Further, the applicant must have received a Ph.D. within the past 10 years.
Qualifying researchers may apply to one of six Office of Science program offices — Advanced Scientific Computing Research; Biological and Environmental Research; Basic Energy Sciences; Fusion Energy Sciences; High Energy Physics; or Nuclear Physics. Pre-applications are mandatory and are due on Wednesday, Feb. 6. The full proposals are due on Monday, April 29. The DOE will notify applicants if they can submit a full proposal, based on their pre-application.
Funding will be awarded to the winners by peer review.
Over each of the past nine years that this program has run, an average of 40 university and 20 national laboratory awards have been initiated.
