(FOA)-Early Career Research Program (DE-FOA-0002173); January 7, 2020

 

Agency

US Department of Energy – Office of Science (SC)

 

Description

The purpose of this program is to support the development of individual research programs of outstanding scientists early in their careers and to stimulate research careers in the areas supported by SC. Eligibility: 

·         The Principal Investigator must be an untenured Assistant Professor on the tenure track or an untenured Associate Professor on the tenure track at a U.S. academic institution as of the deadline for the application.

·         No more than ten (10) years can have passed between the year the Principal Investigator’s Ph.D. was awarded and the year that the FOA was issued. For the present competition, those who received doctorates no earlier than 2008 are eligible.

·         There can be no co-Principal Investigators.

·         Principal Investigators who have received awards previously under the SC Early Career Research Program are not eligible.

·         Cost sharing is not required.

·         Each PI may only submit one SC Early Career Research Program application per annual competition. Additionally, a PI may not participate in more than three SC Early Career Research Program competitions.  Participation in the competition is defined as submission of a full application that completed the review/decision process.  

 

SC is interest in receiving grant applications for support of work in its six scientific programs areas:

 

1. Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR)

(a)           Applied Mathematics – Algorithms, Data Analysis

(b)           Computer Science – Big data

(c)           Computational Partnerships

(d)           Research and Evaluation Prototypes

 

2. Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

(a)           Materials Chemistry

(b)           Biomolecular Materials

(c)           Synthesis and Processing Science

(d)           Experimental Condensed Matter Physics

(e)           Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics

(f)            Physical Behavior of Materials

(g)           Mechanical Behavior and Radiation Effects

(h)           X-rayScattering

(i)            Neutron Scattering

(j)            Electron and ScanningProbe Microscopies

(k)           Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Sciences

(l)            Gas Phase Chemical Physics

(m)          Computation and Theoretical Chemistry

(n)           Condensed Phase and Interfacial Molecular Science

(p)           Catalysis Science

(q)           Separation Science

(r)            HeavyElement Chemistry

(s)           Geosciences

(t)            Solar Photochemistry

(u)           Photosynthetic Systems

(v)           Physical Biosciences

(w)          BES Accelerator and Detector Research

 

3. Biological andEnvironmental Research (BER)

(a)           Biological Systems Science

(b)           Earth and Environmental Systems Sciences

 

4. Fusion Energy Sciences (FES)

(a)           Burning Plasma Science: Foundations—Advanced Tokamak and Spherical Tokamak

(b)           Burning Plasma Science: Foundations—Theory & Simulation

(c)           Burning Plasma Science: Long Pulse—Tokamak &Stellarator

(d)           Burning Plasma Science: Long Pulse—Materials &Fusion NuclearScience

(e)           DiscoveryPlasma Science: Plasma Science Frontiers

(f)            DiscoveryPlasma Science: Measurement Innovation

 

5. High Energy Physics (HEP)

(a)           Experimental Research at the EnergyFrontier inHigh EnergyPhysics

(b)           Experimental Research at the Intensity Frontier inHigh EnergyPhysics

(c)           Experimental Research at the Cosmic Frontier inHigh EnergyPhysics

(d)           Theoretical Research inHigh EnergyPhysics

(e)           Computational Research in High EnergyPhysics

(f)            Accelerator Science and TechnologyResearch & Development in High EnergyPhysics

(g)           Detector Research and Development in High EnergyPhysics

(h)           HEPQuantum Information Science (QIS)

 

6. Nuclear Physics (NP)

(a)           Medium EnergyNuclear Physics

(b)           HeavyIon Nuclear Physics

(c)           Low EnergyNuclear Physics

(d)           Fundamental Symmetries

(e)           Nuclear Theory

(f)            Nuclear Data and NuclearTheoryComputing

(g)           Isotope Development and Production for Research and Applications

(h)           Accelerator Research and Development for Current and Future Nuclear Physics Facilities

 

Announcement Number:

DE-FOA-0002173

 

Closing Date:

Pre-Applications: January 7, 2020

Full Applications: March 16, 2020  

 

Link to Full Announcement

https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=322675

 

Contact Information

SC.Early@science.doe.gov