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Grants & Funding Support: Biosketches for NIH, NSF, and IES grants

This step-by-step guide will walk you though what you need to know, from logging into SciENcv and linking your ORCID profile to make it easier to populate your biosketch, through creating and exporting your biosketch.

Selecting ORCID or eRA Commons as the external source will help automatically populate your biosketch, saving you time from having to manually input information.

Sections of the IES Biosketch:

Education/Training 

  • List degrees starting with baccalaureate and include postdoctoral training if applicable

Personal Statement

  • Briefly describe why you are well-suited for your role in the project described in this application
  • You may also identify up to four publications 

Positions and Honors

  • List previous positions in chronological order
  • Include other experiences and professional memberships  
  • List Board certifications or clinical licensure(s)

Contribution to Education Research

  • Briefly describe up to five of your most significant contributions
    • influence of the finding(s) on the progress of science 

    • your specific role in the described work

    • list up to five relevant publications 

  • Submit a hyperlink to your MyBibliography

Research Support and/or Scholastic Performance

  • List research projects completed in the past three years (Federal or non-Federally-supported) that are most relevant to the research proposed in the application
  • List all current and pending research support and include your level of effort (percent effort over a 12-month calendar year) allocated for each of these current and pending projects
  • Briefly indicate the overall goals of the projects and your specific responsibilities on the project

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