Thank you to everyone who applied to our Pump Priming Funding Call in December 2024. All applications were subject to a distributed peer review process, followed by final ratification by AIchemy’s Leadership Team.
Below, you’ll find the scoring details, including project rankings, average scores for each criteria, and overall scores. The individual criteria scores represent the average across all reviewers.
The overall ranking score was calculated as follows:
- Each reviewer criteria mark was totalled to give a reviewer score
- The highest and lowest reviewer score was disregarded
- The average of the remaining reviewer scores provided the total overall ranking score
Due to this, please note that the average criteria scores may not sum exactly to the total overall score.
The four criteria that all AIchemy funding applications were reviewed against were:
- Quality and fit of the proposed research: A well-defined research question; good awareness of the current state of the art and how this will be moved forward; fit with the vision of the Hub to transform the AI-chemistry landscape.
- Potential for impact: Research leading to advancements at the AI-chemistry interface e.g. new applications of AI within chemistry, new software development, new collaborations/partnerships, improved quality and access to data.
- Interdisciplinarity: Aligned with the vison, research should look beyond a single discipline and be focused at the AI-chemistry interface.
- Ability to deliver: Feasibility of the proposal within the resources and timeline requested.
We are pleased to announce that the ten highest ranked projects have successfully secured funding, click below to view these projects.
| Project Number | Overall Score | Criteria 1 Average Mark | Criteria 2 Average Mark | Criteria 3 Average Mark | Criteria 4 Average Mark |
| 1 | 16.14 | 3.86 | 3.71 | 4.14 | 4.29 |
| 2 | 16.14 | 3.71 | 3.71 | 4.43 | 4.29 |
| 3 | 15.75 | 4.00 | 3.50 | 3.75 | 4.50 |
| 4 | 15.63 | 3.88 | 3.75 | 4.25 | 3.88 |
| 5 | 15.63 | 3.81 | 4.13 | 4.50 | 3.06 |
| 6 | 15.25 | 3.63 | 3.69 | 4.19 | 4.00 |
| 7 | 15.19 | 3.88 | 3.63 | 4.44 | 3.38 |
| 8 | 15.19 | 4.06 | 3.75 | 3.25 | 4.25 |
| 9 | 15.14 | 3.86 | 4.00 | 3.71 | 3.71 |
| 10 | 15.00 | 3.63 | 3.63 | 4.38 | 3.38 |
| 11 | 14.86 | 3.64 | 3.50 | 4.00 | 3.29 |
| 12 | 14.75 | 3.63 | 3.63 | 3.88 | 3.50 |
| 13 | 14.75 | 3.88 | 3.75 | 3.50 | 3.75 |
| 14 | 14.56 | 3.88 | 3.38 | 3.69 | 3.50 |
| 15 | 14.43 | 3.14 | 3.57 | 3.86 | 3.57 |
| 16 | 14.38 | 3.63 | 3.88 | 4.13 | 2.88 |
| 17 | 14.25 | 4.13 | 3.63 | 3.38 | 3.00 |
| 18 | 14.25 | 3.87 | 3.37 | 3.50 | 3.50 |
| 19 | 14.13 | 3.81 | 3.63 | 3.75 | 3.06 |
| 20 | 14.13 | 3.38 | 3.75 | 4.00 | 2.88 |
| 21 | 13.88 | 3.38 | 3.63 | 3.25 | 3.75 |
| 22 | 13.71 | 3.29 | 3.71 | 3.43 | 3.43 |
| 23 | 13.69 | 3.56 | 3.56 | 3.69 | 2.75 |
| 24 | 13.63 | 2.88 | 2.88 | 3.63 | 3.88 |
| 25 | 13.57 | 3.14 | 3.57 | 3.71 | 3.43 |
| 26 | 13.56 | 3.63 | 3.50 | 3.88 | 2.69 |
| 27 | 13.56 | 3.50 | 3.38 | 3.63 | 3.06 |
| 28 | 13.44 | 3.56 | 3.38 | 3.00 | 3.75 |
| 29 | 13.38 | 3.13 | 3.38 | 3.63 | 3.50 |
| 30 | 13.13 | 3.00 | 3.38 | 3.38 | 3.38 |
| 31 | 13.00 | 2.75 | 3.38 | 3.50 | 3.38 |
| 32 | 12.83 | 3.00 | 3.00 | 3.67 | 3.00 |
| 33 | 12.50 | 3.38 | 3.13 | 2.88 | 3.38 |
| 34 | 12.06 | 2.56 | 3.06 | 3.31 | 3.00 |
| 35 | 11.63 | 2.50 | 2.75 | 3.25 | 3.25 |
| 36 | 11.00 | 2.63 | 2.38 | 2.88 | 2.88 |
| 37 | 10.14 | 2.29 | 2.57 | 2.86 | 2.29 |