ARPA-E IGNIITE (Early-Career Innovators)
Supports United States early-career energy researchers building disruptive energy solutions beyond conventional approaches.
IGNIITE — Inspiring Generations of New Innovators to Impact Technologies in Energy — is ARPA-E's early-career researcher award, providing approximately $500,000 per project over 24 months to individual principal investigators within roughly ten years of receiving their terminal degree. The program targets disruptive, unconventional energy research ideas that an early-career researcher can lead ind…
All ARPA-E mission areas: energy technology breakthroughs from early-career scientists and engineers. Topic priorities aligned to America's most critical energy technology challenges in the program year.
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