Welcome to ResearchArk Pulse!
The people building the future of research infrastructure need a place to talk openly — about what they're learning, what AI is really changing in science, and what researchers actually need. That place is Pulse. We're just getting started.
Something has been missing from the conversation about research and innovation for a long time. Not data, not analysis, not opinion — there is plenty of all of that. What has been missing is a place where the people building the future of research infrastructure talk openly about what they are learning, what they are getting wrong, and what the research community actually needs.
That is what Pulse is for.
We are Alphin and Andreas, co-founders of Mycel UG and the team behind ResearchArk — a platform we have been building since graduating from our own research studies, because we kept running into the same wall: brilliant researchers spending more time on administration than on discovery, chasing funding across hundreds of scattered sources, building incredible collaborative networks that dissolve the moment a grant ends. We thought there had to be a better way. So we started building one.
ResearchArk is live now in closed beta. But Pulse exists for something beyond product updates.
We are living through an extraordinary moment in the history of science. AI is beginning to touch every part of the research lifecycle — how hypotheses are formed, how experiments are run, how literature is reviewed, how funding is found, how teams are built. The potential is genuinely remarkable. So are the risks, if the tools being built are not designed with the right intentions from the start.
At Pulse, we will be writing about all of it — honestly, without the usual startup gloss.
What to expect here
Funding landscape insights
Where the money is moving in EU and global research programmes, which calls are worth your attention, how funding priorities are shifting across disciplines.
AI and the future of scientific discovery
What is actually changing, what is hype, and what researchers should be paying attention to.
Stories from the research community
The unglamorous, important realities of doing research in 2026, from PhD students to senior investigators to funders.
Building in public
Honest reflections from us on what we are building, what we are learning, and where ResearchArk is headed.
Voices we trust
Perspectives from researchers, policymakers, and practitioners across the RTDI ecosystem who are thinking seriously about where science is going.
We are just getting started. The first posts are coming very soon.
If you are a researcher, a funder, a PhD student, or someone who cares about the future of science — we would love you to be part of what we are building. The ResearchArk beta is open now, free with full access, and every person who joins and shares their experience shapes what comes next.
More soon.
Alphin & Andreas
Co-founders, ResearchArk