For researchers
Spend less time sorting cold emails.
Post the position once, state what the project actually needs, and review candidates who answered your questions.
What you get
Five things that replace an inbox.
Structured applications
Every applicant answers the same questions you wrote, so responses can be compared without opening a mail client.
Project-specific questions
Short answers, long responses, numbers, multiple choice, file uploads, and an optional response to a paper you attach.
Relevant student profiles
Program, year, coursework, skills, prior research, and stated weekly availability, filled in once by the student.
Criterion evidence
Each criterion you set is shown with the evidence behind it and where that evidence came from.
One place to review
A split view on desktop with the applicant list beside the candidate, private notes, and status you control.
Post a position from this project
ResearchBridge building the listing
Criteria
You decide what matters, and applicants can see it.
A criterion is a plain statement of something the project needs. Availability of at least eight hours per week. Python or R. A specific course. Prior wet lab work. You mark each one required or preferred, and give preferred criteria an importance level of high, medium, or low.
Required conditions are evaluated separately from preference weighting, so a student who cannot meet a hard requirement is not quietly mixed in with everyone else. Preferred criteria are normalized against each other, which means a single preferred item cannot dominate an entire application unless you set it up that way.
Students see the required and preferred criteria on the listing before they apply. Nothing is scored against them that was not disclosed.
Who can post
Researcher accounts are reviewed before positions go live.
- Professors and principal investigators
- Postdoctoral researchers
- PhD and master's students
- Lab managers and research staff
- Students leading legitimate research projects who need collaborators
Every listing must describe the project, what the student would do, the expected hours, the compensation category, and the application requirements. Listings that amount to nothing more than a request to email the poster are not published.