Find Researchers Fast
Simplifying researcher discovery and collaboration
Find and connect with researchers across all disciplines and career stages through our intelligent search and recommendation engine. Our advanced technology makes discovering academic collaborators simple and efficient.
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Who we serve
For Researchers
Expand your network across disciplines and institutions to discover new perspectives and skills
Get noticed for your work and expertise beyond your existing networks
Save time by easily finding collaborators, mentors, supervisors, and examiners
For Higher Education Institutions
Accelerate innovation by fostering cross-departmental collaborations and breaking down silos
Optimise efficiency by making internal expertise, skills, and resources easy to find
Maximise impact by increasing visibility to external stakeholders
For industry, government, NGOs, independent consultants & more
Quickly find experts and speakers across diverse fields
Identify the right expertise for tenders, funding, and project evaluations.
Discover emerging talent for collaborations and partnerships
For Those Seeking Academic Expertise
Award winning innovation
Our innovative approach has been recognised by several prestigious awards including an Innovate UK award, the Jean Golding Institute’s Data Science Seed Award, and King’s College London’s ‘Idea’s Factory Award’.
Search Engine
Enter any topic, method, or phrase to return matching researchers and their relevant outputs. Filter results by publications, grants, and years active.
Recommendation Engine
Enter a researcher’s name to view their top suggested collaborators (and other matching information) based on their research interests.
“I needed to identify researchers and suitable experts at my institution to set up an interdisciplinary research project. I remember this took me days of searching through various research profiles, but I found the right people in seconds using Researcher Searcher”
— Dr Maya Thanou, Professor of Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology, King’s College London, UK
What makes us unique
Innovative search
Our advanced search technology understands the meaning behind your query to go beyond simple keyword matching. This enables a more intuitive search that returns relevant researchers even when they describe their work differently.
Smart matching system
Our intelligent recommendation engine automatically connects researchers with ideal collaborators across disciplines and organisations — breaking down silos and fostering transformative connections that transcend traditional networks.
While currently focused on research partnerships, our engine can expand to suggest personalised funding opportunities, project tenders, events, and areas of policy interest.
Democratic discovery
We rank results based on the relevance of a researchers work - not just the total number of publications. This means every researcher has a fair chance to be discovered regardless of their career stage or number of publications.
Comprehensive data coverage
We bring together data from multiple sources, including publications, grants, and stated research interests, to provide a holistic view of each researcher’s expertise.
Meet the Team
Gemma Archer, PhD
CEO / COFOUNDER
Ben Elsworth, PhD
CTO / COFOUNDER
Our Story
As former researchers, we've experienced first-hand how difficult it can be to find the right academic expertise. Existing search tools prioritise highly cited academics, leaving many talented researchers invisible. This reinforces structural biases, limits opportunities, and hinders innovation.
We built Researcher Searcher to democratise discovery. Our AI-powered search focuses on people, not just publications, ensuring researchers are findable based on their expertise - not their networks or number of publications.
With Gemma's decade in data-driven research and cross-sector collaboration and Ben's expertise in AI-powered search and large-scale data engineering, we're making researcher discovery fairer, more inclusive, and more effective for everyone.
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We believe that the right connections are essential for addressing some of the world's most pressing social and environmental challenges.
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