Find people. Find opportunities. Find your co-author.
Find Your Co-author is a platform for students and researchers to connect, collaborate, learn from one another, and discover opportunities beyond their existing academic networks.
Your next collaboration doesn't always have to come from your lab, advisor, university, or existing network. Sometimes you just need to find the right person — or the right opportunity.
Your academic network shouldn't be limited to your lab.
Whether you're an undergraduate trying to get started, a graduate student looking for collaborators outside your lab, an early-career researcher building new connections, or simply someone with a skill you'd like to share, there are people and opportunities outside your immediate circle that you may never hear about.
What can you find here?
Find a collaborator or teammate
Looking for a co-author, someone with a complementary skill, or a teammate for a competition, challenge, or hackathon? Post what you're looking for or browse people who are looking for collaborators.
Learn a skill — or share one
Find someone who knows a method, tool, experiment, or workflow you'd like to learn. Or offer your own skills to someone who could use them. Not every collaboration has to start with a paper.
Find or offer peer review opportunities
Need a reviewer with specific expertise? Post a peer review listing and let relevant researchers find it. Want to review papers but don't always have opportunities? Browse open review listings in your areas of interest.
Discover opportunities worth building a team for
Find competitions, challenges, grants, fellowships, calls for papers, workshops, and other opportunities — then find the people you need to pursue them.
Different people, different reasons to be here.
Undergraduate
Find ways to get started, learn a research skill, help with a project, meet researchers, or join a competition.
Graduate student
Meet people outside your lab, find collaborators, learn new methods, build teams, and discover opportunities beyond your university.
Postdoc or early-career researcher
Build connections beyond your existing network, find collaborators with complementary expertise, and share your work with a wider research community.
Anyone with something to offer
Share a skill, review a manuscript, offer feedback, invite someone to a team, or help another researcher move a project forward.
We keep looking for opportunities, too.
Finding the right people is only half the problem. You also need to know what is worth working on.
We regularly collect and update competitions, challenges, grants, fellowships, calls for papers, workshops, and other academic and research opportunities across fields and academic stages.
We're especially interested in opportunities that students and early-career researchers can actually participate in — including interdisciplinary opportunities that are easy to miss if you only follow your own field.
How it works
1. Create your profile
Tell people what you work on, what you know, what you're interested in, and what you're looking for.
2. Post or discover
Post a collaboration or peer review request, browse listings, search for people, or explore current opportunities.
3. Connect
Send a connection request with a short note. Once accepted, you can continue the conversation privately in your inbox.
4. Take it from there
A connection might become a paper, a competition team, a skill exchange, a peer review, a research collaboration, or simply the beginning of a useful academic relationship.
Built with academic realities in mind.
We know that academic projects aren't always yours to share freely. Listings can indicate project ownership and whether outside collaboration has been approved by a PI or other responsible party.
Some higher-stakes listing types also require institution-email verification. See verification for details.
Frequently asked questions
What is Find Your Co-author?
Find Your Co-author is a platform where students and researchers find collaborators outside their own lab — paper co-authors, peer reviewers, competition teammates, method or tool collaborators, hackathon partners and skill exchanges — and discover academic opportunities such as competitions, grants, fellowships, calls for papers, conferences and workshops.
Who is Find Your Co-author for?
It is built for undergraduates, master's and PhD students, postdocs, faculty, independent researchers and industry researchers who want to meet people and opportunities beyond their existing academic network.
What kinds of collaboration can I post?
There are six listing types: paper collaboration, competition team, method/tool collaboration, hackathon sprint, peer review, and skill exchange.
What does the risk level on a listing mean?
Each listing is automatically tagged low, medium or high risk based on its type and project ownership. Competition teams, peer review, skill exchanges and hackathon sprints are low risk. Tool collaborations, and paper collaborations posted by a professor or with PI pre-approval, are medium risk. Paper collaborations owned by a student or not yet approved by a PI are high risk, so you know what you are stepping into before reaching out.
What is project ownership status?
Paper and tool collaboration listings must state who controls the project: the student owns it, the PI has pre-approved outside collaborators, the PI has not approved yet, or the poster is the PI/professor. This helps both sides agree on authorship and ownership before collaborating.
Do I need to verify my identity?
Browsing is open to everyone. Posting a paper collaboration or a tool collaboration listing requires institution-email verification, which helps keep higher-stakes listings trustworthy.
Where do the opportunities come from?
Opportunities are collected from official organizer sources and community submissions, and each one shows its source. Every opportunity page links to the official announcement, which remains the authoritative source for rules and deadlines.
How do I contact someone I want to work with?
Send a connection request with an optional short note. Once the other person accepts, you can continue the conversation privately in your inbox.
Can I hide my profile from search?
Yes. A privacy setting removes your profile from search and suggested-collaborator results. People who already have a direct link, for example from a listing application or an accepted connection, can still open it.
Maybe you're looking for someone. Maybe someone is looking for you.
Start by exploring listings, opportunities, or people.