Setting up your Research Interests

Research Interests are central to how Atom works.

We use researcher's research interest to not only match new and upcoming grants in the personalized grant emails but also to match grants on the For You page of the dashboard.

After setting up your profile, we use a researcher's previously published papers to generate a few initial research interests. Note: these can be removed if it is on work you aren't looking for grants on by hitting the - button.

Additionally, researchers can add additional research interests using the + button. Researchers can add as many research interests as they like and we will provide grant suggestions for all of them.

Enter additional research interests

Semantic Matching

Unlike typical platforms where a researcher can only include a few keywords, Atom also allows researchers to input full paragraphs of text as research interests.

This means research interests can be anything from the title or abstract of a paper, a paragraph from a researchers website describing their current work, to even parts of previous grant proposals.

Often, adding a full paragraph instead of keywords provides substantially better matching.