Research

Principal Investigator Eligibility

Postdocs are not eligible to be a Principal Investigator (PI) at UF unless they have a UF eligible PI serve as Co-Principal Investigator (internally or as part of the formal grant application) and have written approval from the Department Chair and Division of Sponsored Programs. Click this link to learn more: Principal Investigator Eligibility to Submit a Proposal for External Funding.

Find Funding Opportunities

UF Office of Research

The SRD Office utilizes the Pivot-RP database to track funding opportunities over time. Here, you can find funding available for UF Early Career faculty and staff, Post-Docs, and Graduate students. You can also use this as solely a search tool and export your results to an Excel sheet.

• Office of Research Resources for External Funding lists a variety of funding search resources.
• Pivot Supports research profiles, provides a comprehensive database of funding opportunities, and includes the option to set up funding alerts. All members of the UF Community can recieve a free membership by logging in with Gatorlink credentials. You can find information on how to use the Pivot database here. 
  
  Here is an example Pivot database search for postdoctoral funding opportunities open to non-US Citizens. (If you have trouble viewing this, create your account and then re-try the link). Here are the search parameters that were used: ((Activity Location=(United States or Unrestricted)) OR (Activity Location Sub-entity=(United States) OR (Activity Location Super-entity=(United States)) AND (Funding Type=(Postdoctoral Award)) NOT ((Citizenship=(United States or Unrestricted or Unspecified))) 

George A. Smathers Libraries 

• UF Libraries Grants and Fellowships Funding Opportunities
• Johns Hopkins University Office of Research provides a continuously updated repository (Excel file) of federal and private funding opportunities that are intended for postdoctoral investigators. 

Research Resources

Grant Writing Resources

• GradDev – Writing
• CTSI Grant-Writing Courses, Workshops, and Toolkits

Publishing Resources

EndNote Free with UF credentials

Research Tools and Resources

• UFIT Research Computing - For questions or to request training on specific topics.
• Research Computing Walk-in Support
• Environmental Health and Safety – report a hazard, risk assessment, trainings, ergonomic evaluations, and more resources to support your research.
• ARCS (Academic Research Consulting & Services) - library professionals who offer unique expertise and services to support your research activities, through data collection to dissemination of results to evaluation of outputs to archiving. 
• Find a subject specialist - Liaison or subject specialist librarians are assigned to each unit or discipline on campus. 
• 3D printing at Marston Science Library
• 3D scanners
• Interlibrary Loans
• UF Data Guide – Use this tool to make informed decisions where to safely store, analyze and share data at UF. Visit the Integrated Risk Management website for more tools related to data storage and transfer.