When funding disappears, so does the promise of discovery. Let’s make sure bold ideas still get the chance they deserve. That’s why we have launched a pilot program to help postdocs restart defunded projects with infrastructure, community, and mentoring support they need to succeed at no cost.

Eligibility

We only support projects for public license and/or open access outputs.  Interested postdocs conducting research in one of these subject areas may be eligible to join our inaugural cohort:

🖥 Computer Science — Software engineering, theoretical CS, databases, graphics
🔌 Electrical Engineering — Solar micro-systems, PCBs, embedded systems, networking
🩺 Biomedical Engineering — Ventilators, oxygen generators, point-of-care diagnostics, tracking systems
🛠 Mechanical Engineering — Structural engineering, ferrofluids, CAD modeling
📐 Applied Mathematics — Solid geometry, optimization methods
🔬 Basic Physics — Low-energy systems, computational fluid dynamics

Benefits

For eligible projects, we offer the same kind of research capacity and project support that you would have received at the university. However, we do not employ researchers directly. All project costs are budgeted as direct line items and paid via invoice, including labor.

🧪 What You’ll Get:

• Affiliation, so that you can receive funding and publish

• Project management, so that you meet your project goals

• Mentoring, so that you can gain PI skills and experience

• Grant management, so that you get paid