DOE Early Career Research Program: Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline

Date and Time

January 5, 2023
05:00PM - 05:00PM EST

DOE Early Career Research ProgramFAS/SEAS/OSP Pre-Application Deadline: January 3 by 9 AMSponsor Pre-Application Deadline (required): January 5, 2023 by 5 PMFAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline (if invited): March 16, 2023Sponsor Full Proposal Deadline (if invited): March 23, 2023Award Amount: Average of $875,000 for five years. Requests for larger budget amounts require sufficient justification.

The Department of Energy (DOE) Early Career Research Program supports the development of the individual research programs of outstanding scientists early in their careers and stimulates research careers in the disciplines supported by the DOE Office of Science. Opportunities exist in the following program areas:

  • Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR);
  • Basic Energy Sciences (BES);
  • Biological and Environmental Research (BER);
  • Fusion Energy Sciences (FES);
  • High Energy Physics (HEP);
  • Nuclear Physics (NP);
  • Isotope R&D and Production (DOE IP); and
  • Accelerator R&D and Production (ARDAP)

To be eligible for the program, a researcher must be an untenured, tenure-track assistant or associate professor as of the deadline of the application. No more than 12 years can have passed between the year the PI’s Ph.D. was awarded and the calendar year in which this FOA is released. For the present competition, those who received doctorates on or after January 1, 2010, are eligible. If a PI has multiple doctorates, the discipline of the one they have earned within the 12-year eligibility window must be relevant to the proposed research. Awards to an institution of higher education will be approximately $875,000 over five years. The funding level for institutions of higher education has been raised to encourage institutions to increase graduate student stipends.

A webinar on this opportunity will be held on November 30 at 3 PM ET. Register here.