The IRIS Expertise Service allows you to advertise your research interests, experience, and
accomplishments to the world at large, via the Web.
For these reasons, it is important that the information in your expertise
record be as comprehensive and accurate as possible. Please use care in
filling out this form, and remember to keep it up to date.
Accessibility
You can make your professional profile visible to anybody on the Web, or
limit visibility to your own institution.
Basic Information
This block contains fields for honorific, name, title, institution, college
or school, department, street address, city/state/zip code, country,
telephone, fax, e-mail address, and personal Web page.
Please enter your information as you would like it to appear on a printed
form or grant application. Use upper-case letters where appropriate.
Examples:
"John Doe", not "john doe"
"College of Medicine", not "college of medicine"
Academic Rank
Select the appropriate rank from the picklist. If the list does not contain
an exact match, pick the closest match.
Ethnicity, Gender, Citizenship Status, Disability?
These fields are optional. The information they contain will NOT appear in
the publicly accessible version of your profile.
However, this information IS required by U.S. federal government funding
agencies. If you intend to use your IRIS Expertise Service profile in
electronic proposal submissions to federal agencies, you should fill out
these fields.
Statement of Research Activities and Interests
Be as detailed as you want. There is no limit on the length of your
research statement.
Keywords
List keywords in the suggested format. You can list as many (or as few) as
you want.
Education and Training
There are separate fields for up to three academic degrees, plus a field
for other education or training (internships, residencies, postdocs, etc.).
Although no particular order is required, we suggest that you list your
degrees in the chronological order in which they were acquired, starting
with the earliest.
Professional Experience (Job History)
Please list your professional positions in reverse chronological order,
starting with the most recent and working backwards. There are separate
fields for up to five professional positions. There is a general text area
for other positions or job experience.
Publications
Again, please list your publications in reverse chronological order,
beginning with the most recent. There are separate fields for your five
most recent or representative publications. List other publications in the
"Other Publications" text area. There is no limit on the number of
publications that may be listed in this area.
Patents
Self-explanatory.
Honors
Self-explanatory.
Memberships/Associations
Self-explanatory.
Advisees
Self-explanatory.
Collaborators
Please include the collaborators' institutional affiliations and the nature
of the collaboration (grant proposal, journal article, etc.).
Current and Pending Support
List current or pending grants.
Synergistic Activities
This field is required by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Here is
the NSF's definition of "synergistic activities":
"A list of up to five examples that demonstrate the broader impact of the
individual's professional and scholarly activities that focus on the
integration and transfer of knowledge as well as its creation. Examples
could include, among others: innovations in teaching and training (e.g.,
development of curricular materials and pedagogical methods); contributions
to the science of learning; development and/or refinement of research
tools; computation methodologies, and algorithms for problem-solving;
development of databases to support research and education; broadening the
participation of groups underrepresented in science, mathematics,
engineering and technology; and service to the scientific and engineering
community outside of the individual's immediate organization." (Source: NSF FY2001 Grant Proposal Guide)
If you do not intend to submit grant applications to the NSF, you can leave
this field blank.
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Preview
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recommend that you do this in order to ensure that your information looks
the way you want it to.
If you have questions about using this form, please feel free to contact
the IRIS office at:
Illinois Researcher Information Service (IRIS)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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901 South Mathews Avenue
Urbana, Illinois 61801
Telephone: (217) 333-9893
Fax: (217) 333-7011
E-mail: email
(March 2005)