Astera Residency opens applications: up to $2M for 12-18 month open-science projects
anselm · x · 2026-11-14
Applications are open for the Astera Residency (Spring 2027 cohort), deadline January 7, 2027, based in Emeryville, CA. The program runs 12-18 months with negotiated budgets up to $2M, requiring open outputs.
Past residents have built a space telescope slated for actual launch, developed fusion TEA tools now used by ARPA-E, engineered microbes that survive in Mars soil and produce useful byproducts, and ported biological neural circuits to CUDA to drive robots.
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