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Instrumentation & beamtime funding calls

Calls for shared instrumentation and for free beamtime at synchrotron and neutron user facilities. Beamtime proposals are peer reviewed on scientific merit, are usually free for non-proprietary research and run on fixed cycles. Closed rounds and their next expected windows are on the calendar page.

11 open calls as of 15 October 2026. The next deadline is 21 October 2026. Updated weekly.

Filter by scheme: early-career / new PI (1)

Advanced Photon Source (APS) General User proposals

Argonne National Laboratory – Advanced Photon Source (DOE) · International (US DOE user facility)
Deadline: 21 Oct 2026 (6 days)
Amount: see call
crystallizationmaterialschemistryearly-careerestablished / PIstudentinstrument / beamtime

Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Department of War (DoW) Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP)

Office of Naval Research · United States
Deadline: 06 Nov 2026 (22 days)
Up to $3,000,000
chemistryestablished / PIinstrument / beamtime

Fiscal Year 2027 Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP)

Air Force Office of Scientific Research · United States
Deadline: 06 Nov 2026 (22 days)
Up to $7,000,000
chemistryestablished / PIinstrument / beamtime

Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Department of War (DoW) Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP)

Dept of the Army -- Materiel Command · United States
Deadline: 06 Nov 2026 (22 days)
Up to $3,000,000
chemistryestablished / PIinstrument / beamtime

PSI SINQ neutron source – call for proposals

Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) – SINQ · International
Deadline: 15 Jan 2027 (92 days)
Amount: see call
crystallizationmaterialschemistryearly-careerestablished / PIstudentinstrument / beamtime

NSLS-II General User proposals

Brookhaven National Laboratory – NSLS-II (DOE) · International (US DOE user facility)
Deadline: 31 Jan 2027 (108 days)
Amount: see call
crystallizationmaterialschemistryearly-careerestablished / PIstudentinstrument / beamtime

ESRF Standard (and Multi-Project) beamtime proposals

European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) · International (ESRF member and associate countries)
Deadline: 01 Mar 2027 (137 days)
Amount: see call
crystallizationmaterialschemistryearly-careerestablished / PIstudentinstrument / beamtime

ORNL Neutron Sciences (HFIR & SNS) General User Proposal Call 2027-B

Oak Ridge National Laboratory – Neutron Sciences (DOE) · International (US DOE user facility)
Deadline: 10 Mar 2027 (146 days)
Amount: see call
crystallizationmaterialschemistryearly-careerestablished / PIstudentinstrument / beamtime

RSC Research Fund 2027

Royal Society of Chemistry · International (RSC members)
Deadline: 15 Mar 2027 (151 days)
Up to £5,000 for 12 months
chemistryearly-careerestablished / PIearly-career / new PIinstrument / beamtime

Shared Instrumentation Grant (SIG) Program (S10 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

National Institutes of Health · United States
Deadline: 01 Jul 2028 (625 days)
Up to $5,000,000
chemistryestablished / PIinstrument / beamtime

Diamond Light Source proposal call (AP42)

Diamond Light Source · International (incl. EU users)
Deadline: Call AP42 open; deadline not shown on the page – check the funder page
Amount: see call
crystallizationmaterialschemistryearly-careerestablished / PIinstrument / beamtime

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