Funder: American Physical Society
Due Dates (Anticipated): October 2027 (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: $1,250,000 over five years, with additional research equipment funds available
Summary: Supports mid-career experimental physicists pursuing innovative new research directions with the potential to transform the field.
Key Information: Applicants generally must be within five years of tenure at their current U.S. institution and lack significant funding for the proposed ideas.
Description
The Experimental Physics Investigator (EPI) Initiative is a partnership between APS Innovation and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation supporting creative, mid-career experimental physicists. It provides sustained support for researchers whose early-career funding may be diminishing, enabling them to pursue new directions with the potential to transform their field. The initiative particularly emphasizes innovative approaches and high-risk, high-reward research.
The program supports individual investigators and their teams across a broad range of experimental physics. Areas considered include atomic, molecular, and optical physics, biophysics, chemical physics, condensed matter, fluid dynamics, geophysics, laser physics, materials, polymer physics, plasma physics, precision measurements, quantum information, and soft matter physics. Researchers need not be based in physics departments, provided their proposed research is experimental physics.
