STFC: Projects peer review panel – large projects

03/12/2020

30/10/2021

The Science and Technology Facilities Council, under its projects peer review panel, invites statements of interest for its large projects call. This supports projects that have a significant scientific priority in particle physics, nuclear physics, astronomy, particle astrophysics, accelerator physics and computing for physics.

Mathematical Physics; Universe Sciences; Particle, Plasma & Nuclear Physics. The activities may include: •participation in new experiments or missions; •development of new instruments; •upgrades to existing detectors; •ongoing operation of existing facilities.

Applicants must be employed as academic members of staff, lecturers or equivalent, or hold a fellowship won through open competition. In exceptional cases, senior postdoctoral research assistants of applicants with sufficient experience and qualification may also be eligible. Applicants must be either resident in the UK or employed by an overseas research organisation approved by STFC to be eligible to apply. If the applicant is not employed by the organisation submitting the proposal, they must have have written arrangement from the organisation confirming that they may carry out research there. Postdoctoral research assistants located at the same organisation as the PI may be identified as co-applicants, and they must be working on the grant for at least 50 per cent of their contracted hours.