NSF-UKRI/EPSRC Lead Agency Opportunity on Understanding and Exploiting Quantum Information in Chemical Systems
Forecasted
NSF-UKRI/EPSRC Lead Agency Opportunity on Understanding and Exploiting Quantum Information in Chemical Systems funds U.S. and U.K. teams studying quantum information in chemical systems to advance chemistry.
Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation
Due Dates (Anticipated): March 2027 (Full proposal, anticipated)
Funding Amounts: Award sizes and durations must follow the relevant NSF and EPSRC programs’ norms
Summary: Supports U.S.–U.K. collaborative research advancing quantum information science in chemical systems or applying its concepts to chemistry.
Key Information: Both U.S. and U.K. research groups are required; full proposals require an invitation following a qualified Expression of Interest.
Description
The NSF Division of Chemistry and UKRI’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) support transatlantic research on quantum information science (QIS) in chemical systems. The lead agency opportunity allows collaborating U.S. and U.K. groups to submit one proposal for a single merit review. It seeks to combine expertise in synthesis, measurement, and theory, using molecular design to create systems with quantum behavior relevant to computing, sensing, and communications.
Research may create, observe, or quantify quantum correlations, coherence, and entanglement in molecular states; investigate their roles in chemical reactions and new reaction pathways; develop quantum sensors for chemical systems; or visualize chemistry at very short length or time scales. Closely integrated experimental and theoretical work is encouraged, as are AI methods for system design and synthesis, experimental protocols, or data analysis.
