Chain Reaction Innovations Entrepreneurial Fellowship
Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI) is looking for scientists and engineers focused on commercializing their innovations to join our 2-year fellowship with the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory.
Highlights of the Program
- Two-year fellowship includes $115k per year stipend
- Healthcare benefits with family option
- Travel allowance up to $12k per year plus moving expenses
- Research funding for technical work
- Connection to technical experts, researchers, facilities, and the unique capabilities at Argonne National Laboratory
- Networking with business experts, investors, mentors, and corporate partners
- Neither DOE nor Argonne take an equity stake
Ideal Candidates:
Our ideal candidates are working on deep tech with an energy or science focus. They do not need to have an incorporated startup yet, however, if they do it must be registered in the U.S. and cannot have more than $2M in private sector funding at the time of application to CRI. All candidates must move to Chicago for two years to embed at Argonne. CRI innovators must be either U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents. Priority technology areas include:
- Advanced materials
- Industrial efficiency technologies
- Manufacturing digitization
- Advanced manufacturing processes
- Energy-water nexus
- Advanced computing technologies
- Semiconductor manufacturing
- Energy technologies and their manufacturing
- Grid components
- Grid energy storage
- Critical mineral and materials
- Recovery, reuse, and recycling technologies
- Building energy technologies
- Platform technologies to advance scientific research
- Transportation efficiency
- Power & electric utility related technologies and solutions
- Other technologies that further the DOE’s mission of ensuring America’s security and prosperity by addressing its energy and nuclear challenges.
The program’s success is notable. Innovators from our previous 9 cohorts have created more than 700 jobs and raised $666M in funding. CRI is part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program, one of four ‘nodes’ embedded at national labs across the U.S.