Funder: Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Due Dates (Anticipated): October 2027 (Pre-proposal / application)
Funding Amounts: $1,400,000 per investigator over five years, with additional equipment funds available
Summary: Supports recently tenured experimental physicists and their teams pursuing new research directions across a broad range of physics fields.
Key Information: Applicants must have earned tenure or equivalent within five years and work at a U.S. institution.
Description
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s Experimental Physics Investigators Initiative supports individual researchers transitioning from early- to mid-career leadership. Extended funding gives investigators flexibility to pursue creative experiments, test new ideas, change direction when necessary, and explore work that may not attract comparable support from conventional funding sources. Support centers on the principal investigator, their team, and research equipment.
Supported fields 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. The initiative also aims to foster collaboration among investigators and productive research teams whose management practices encourage all members’ participation and continued professional development.
