Chemical Structure and Dynamics Program (CSD)
National Science Foundation
Who can apply
US-based academic institutions. Non-profit research organizations. Qualified researchers (typically requires US citizenship or permanent residency)
About this opportunity
The Chemical Structure and Dynamics (CSD) Program, formerly named Chemical Structure, Dynamics, and Mechanisms A (CSDM-A) Program, supports research projects that advance foundational knowledge on the nature of chemical structure and bonding, electronic structure, and chemical dynamics. At coarse resolution, the CSD Program encompasses the sub-disciplines of experimental physical chemistry and applied computational physical chemistry, and it is interested in projects that enable physical phenomena to be viewed in a new light or in ways that challenge current paradigms. To that end, projects of interest to CSD often rely heavily on the use or advancement of sophisticated experimental techniques (e.g., state-selective methods, time and frequency domain spectroscopies, microscopies, single-mo...