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 and in Deep Research.
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.
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.
📣 Tip: Often, adding a full paragraph instead of keywords provides substantially better matching. You can always update these in the future.
Updating Research Interests
You can update your research interests at any time to keep your grant recommendations relevant and tailored to your work.
Manually Adding or Removing Interests
Navigate to the Research Interests page from your account menu.
To add an interest, click the ➕ button.
To remove an interest, click the ➖ button.
Generating New Interests with Atom AI
On the Research Interests page, click Generate with Atom AI.
Atom AI will scan your profile and suggest additional research interests based on your work.
Review the suggested interests. To add any of them, click the ➕ button next to each interest you’d like to keep.
📣 Tip: You can mix and match - manually add your own interests while also using AI suggestions to discover new areas you may not have considered.
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