Academia Sinica Investigator Awards

Academia Sinica Investigator Awards sit under Academia Sinica, Taiwan's national research academy, and belong to its internal grants-and-awards system for researchers in Taipei. The award line sits inside a broader in-house research portfolio rather than a public startup fund, and it is paired with the academy's other career and investigator support programs. The program uses grant funding with awards from about TWD 200,000 to TWD 1,000,000 on an annual cycle. The surrounding grant inventory points to Academia Sinica researchers and related scholars rather than outside companies, and the academy also runs postdoctoral and doctoral fellowship routes for researchers in Taiwan. This is best read as a house award for investigators already inside Academia Sinica's scientific system. The fit is strongest for researchers who need a modest, repeatable grant rather than a large project-finance package, and the academy's scale matters here: 31 institutes and centres give the program a strong institutional base and a clearly defined internal audience.

No upcoming rounds verified. Cadence: Annual.