The gap between great research
and global visibility
Thousands of world-class research groups are effectively invisible outside their institution. GRN exists to change that — a single, structured platform where every research group can be found, connected, and funded.
The problem we solve
Academic research has no shared directory
A startup can list on AngelList. A company can post on LinkedIn. A researcher who wants to find out who is working on, say, solid-state electrolytes in Southeast Asia has to manually search university websites, cross-reference conference programs, and cold-email strangers. This friction is invisible but enormous.
No global directory
Research groups are scattered across university websites with no structured, searchable, cross-institutional directory.
Collaborations missed
Two groups working on the same problem in different countries rarely find each other because no common platform exists.
Funding goes undiscovered
Highly relevant grants are missed because researchers lack a single filtered view of open opportunities in their field.
Talent pipeline is broken
PhD and postdoc candidates can't easily browse research groups by area and country before making career decisions.
What we built
One platform. Every research domain.
GRN is a structured directory of research groups — not a social network. Every feature is designed to make research more discoverable and connections easier to form.
Research Group Profiles
Structured profiles for labs, departments, and research teams — research areas, publications, team members, and institutional affiliation in one place.
Interactive World Map
Visualize where research is happening across the globe. Filter by domain, country, or research area and explore the geographic landscape of science.
Grants & Funding
A curated database of open grants, fellowships, and funding opportunities — automatically updated and matched to each research domain.
Events & Conferences
Upcoming conferences, workshops, hackathons, and summits across every scientific domain, submitted and moderated by the research community.
Positions
PhD positions, postdocs, faculty roles, and research assistant openings listed by registered groups and filtered by research area.
Published Research
Papers and publications linked to group profiles — giving each group's output a permanent, discoverable home.
Your group, visible to the world
Stop being invisible. Get found by collaborators, funders, and talent.
Your group publishes great work, attends conferences, and trains the next generation of researchers. But outside your institution, almost no one knows you exist. That's the problem GRN solves.
Register a free profile and your group immediately appears in a global directory searched by thousands of researchers every month. Filter by research area, country, or institution. Find the collaborators you've been missing.
Register Your GroupA public profile discoverable by researchers in 80+ countries
Find and connect with groups working on the same problems
Get matched with grants and fellowships relevant to your research
Stay on top of conferences, workshops, and calls for papers
Grow your group's global reach
Attract talent, secure funding, and build the collaborations that advance your research.
Running a research group means competing for the best students, the most interesting collaborations, and the limited pool of relevant funding. GRN gives you the infrastructure to compete globally.
A GRN profile tells a complete story: your research areas, publications, team members, and the kind of work you're doing. Prospective students find you. Potential collaborators reach out. Funders see your track record.
Create a Group ProfilePost positions and reach candidates actively looking for research roles
Track which funding opportunities match your group's focus areas
Showcase publications linked directly to your group profile
Build a team page that helps recruit top-tier students and postdocs
Find your next position
Browse research groups worldwide and discover where your next step takes you.
Choosing where to do your PhD or postdoc is one of the most consequential decisions in a researcher's career. Right now, finding the right group means hours of searching individual university websites, cold-emailing professors, and piecing together information from scattered sources.
GRN gives you a single place to explore research groups by scientific domain, country, or institution. See each group's research focus, recent publications, and open positions before you reach out.
Explore GroupsBrowse groups in 80+ countries filtered by research area
Find PhD positions, postdocs, and research assistant roles
Discover competitions, fellowships, and summer programs
Get matched with grants and travel fellowships for your career stage
See the global research landscape
Identify where the science is happening, who is doing it, and where funding gaps exist.
The best deep-tech investments start with an understanding of the research frontier. But academic science is fragmented — thousands of groups, dozens of institutions, no single map of who is working on what.
GRN gives you that map. Browse research groups by scientific domain, track the themes emerging across geographies, and identify the researchers who are defining the next wave of innovation.
Explore the NetworkA live global map of research activity by domain and country
Track emerging research areas before they reach mainstream attention
Identify leading groups and researchers in any scientific domain
Connect with groups through the GRN directory before competitors do
Showcase your research ecosystem
Give your groups a global stage and drive institutional visibility.
Research excellence lives in your groups. But institutional websites rarely give those groups the visibility they deserve — and they rarely allow the kind of cross-group, cross-institutional discovery that drives real collaboration.
GRN lets every group at your institution maintain a rich, searchable public profile. Rankings, collaborations, and external attention all follow institutional research visibility.
Register Your GroupsAll your research groups discoverable in a single institutional view
Centralized view of grants your groups have secured or are pursuing
Attract international students and postdocs to your departments
Institutional publication record linked across all groups
Research Domains
Science has no silos. Neither does GRN.
Six major scientific domains, each with its own network, directory, grants, events, and job board.
Roadmap
Built. Building. Next.
GRN is actively developed. The core directory, map, events, grants, and jobs infrastructure is live. We are focused on deepening each area and adding the notification, verification, and collaboration features that make the network genuinely useful for day-to-day research work.
Registration is free. Always.
GRN is free for research groups and individual researchers. We believe that public science infrastructure should be accessible to every lab on every continent, regardless of institution size or budget.
Put your group on the map
Registration takes less than 5 minutes. Free forever for research groups. Your profile goes live as soon as it is approved.