FOA-Limited
Submission DOE Data Science to Advance Chemical and Materials Sciences
(DE‐FOA‐0002474);
March 30, 2021
Purpose: The Department of
Energy (DOE) Offfice of Science (SC) program in
Basic Energy Sciences (BES) announces its interest in receiving new applications
from teams of investigators expanding the integration of data science methods
with BES research disciplines, to accelerate scientific discovery and overcome
difficult challenges in these fields. This Funding Opportunity Announcement
(FOA) is focused on new applications that will take advantage of the rapid
growth of data science, including artificial intelligence (AI) and machine
learning (ML) methodologies. The FOA will support teams of investigators for
synergistic computational, experimental, and theoretical research covered by
the research areas in the BES divisions of Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and
Biosciences (CSGB) and Materials Sciences and Engineering (MSE). The focus of
the proposed research must be on science-based, data-driven approaches enabling
solutions for fundamental basic energy sciences challenges not possible
otherwise. The goal of the application should be to integrate novel data
science, uncertainty quantification, and other AI and ML approaches with domain
sciences to uniquely advance the understanding of fundamental properties and
processes relevant to chemical and materials systems and achieve predictability
of functions and behavior under dynamic conditions.
The
general scientific goal of this initiative is to understand and predict complex
and multiscale phenomena in chemical and materials systems, with focus on five
topics (applications must specifically address one or more of the topics):
Topic
1 Heterogeneous and multiscale phenomena
Topic
2 Collective phenomena
Topic
3 Reactive and far from equilibrium pathways
Topic
4 Rare spatio-temporal phenomena
Topic
5 Multimodal/multi-messenger approaches
Note: An individual is
limited to being named as the Lead PI on no more than one
submission.
Funding
Amount/Project Period:
$400,000
to $1,200,000 per year for up to 3 years
Link
to Funding Opportunity Announcement
Institutional
Limit:
2 pre-applications as
lead institution, no limit on the number of pre-applications as a partner
institution.
Internal
Competition: To
participate in the universitys selection process,please upload
the following,assembled into a single PDF file, to the Office of
the Vice President for Research via this
portal
with a copy to your Associate Dean for Research by March 30,
2021:
·
Names
and departments or affiliations of the project director and other key personnel
or partners from other institutions, if any
·
Title
of program and/or funding opportunity announcement number
·
Brief
project description (2 pages maximum)
·
Brief
biographical sketch
A
committee will be convened to review the material and make a recommendation.
For
questions or issues with submission through the portal, email the limited
submission mailbox (limitedsubmissions@uky.edu), or
call 257-2861.
Agency
Deadlines: pre-applications
April 14, 2021; full application June 1, 2021