Funding to support early- to mid-career advanced materials researchers. Enabling them to build connections and collaborations with established UK research programmes that will help enhance their research outcomes. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) funding.
This funding opportunity aims to support research projects that enable early to mid-career researchers to build connections with established research programmes in order to further or help translate their research in advanced materials.
We are looking to fund collaborative advanced materials research projects between early to mid-career project leads and existing large scale UKRI research and development investments.
We expect applications to include one or more collaborator that enables the project lead to enhance or help translate their own programme of work. For example, this can be by providing access to expertise, skills or equipment. The novelty of the project should be in the work that the collaboration enables.
Proposed projects should present a balance of direct research and collaborative activities; we do not intend to fund projects that focus entirely on networking.
Projects must look to address relevant challenges within advanced materials. For example:
- identifying alternative materials and manufacturing technologies to deliver more circular and sustainable options that reduce the demand for critical minerals
- developing and optimising materials with suitable electronic properties for quantum technologies
- engineering to accelerate the creation and utilisation of materials in an environmentally sustainable and socially responsible way
