As previously reported, and as you may have noticed if you served on a panel within the past year, you may have been asked to update your NSF ID. Well, for those of you who have not done that, you will have to update your reviewer profile when we send you an ad hoc request! You see, a lot of people had old, incorrect, or superfluous profiles in our system, and this is part of a multi-year process to clean up redundant IDs.
This process also includes merging researcher and reviewer profiles into a single, self-managed profile/ID to make your lives easier, too. It also means you will no longer require a PIN provided by program staff to access assigned proposals and will instead be able to use a single sign-on from Research.gov to access FastLane Proposal Review functions. Hooray!
You can update your profile now or wait to be prompted by a request from NSF. Either way, the instructions are below for those among us who do not enjoy the thrill and adventure of procrastination.
Here’s how you do it:
- Register for an NSF account in Research.gov if you don’t have one.
- Sign in to Research.gov. If you are prompted to verify your information (email and phone number), you must complete this step before proceeding to step 3.
- Click the Provide Reviewer Profile Information link under “Reviews & Meetings”. If you do not see the Provide Reviewer Profile Information link, contact your program officer.
- Enter the email address where you received this ad hoc request to initiate the one-time process to link your NSF investigator and reviewer profiles.
- You will be invited to update your demographic profile.