2024-2025 call for bridge proposals

For the 2024-2025 year, we are again calling for proposals from academic institutions for bridge faculty searches. Proposal requirements are described here (and on the PDF here). The complete proposals are to be submitted by 1 October 2024 to Ingo Wiedenhoever, chair of the FRIB Experimental Bridge Initiative Board.

These positions will be loosely modeled after those created by the FRIB Theory Alliance, with 50 percent of the cost being covered by FRIB—salary, benefits and travel—administered through the FRIB Experimental Bridge Initiative and 50 percent by the home institution, over an initial period of up to 6 years or until the faculty member is granted tenure.

In selecting academic departments, typically physics or chemistry, to carry out the bridge faculty search, the main selection criterion will be that the science scope of the search is aligned with FRIB science. 

From the applications to host, the committee will select academic departments at doctoral universities with very high or high research activity using additional criteria including the intellectual environment of the university, the diversity of its physics research program, the institutional record in mentoring junior faculty and the access to graduate students. 

The FRIB Experimental Bridge Initiative managing director will seek approval from the FRIB Laboratory director on the selection of the host institution by the board. 

Proposal requirements are described here (PDF).