Symplectic Elements Profiles User Guide

Research and teaching staff profiles created in Elements are published on the Profiles website, enabling us to showcase to the world our research and interconnectedness in an easily-searchable single place.

Follow these steps in order to complete your profile. The below video is a recorded training session for more information and guidance on how to complete your profile.

• Claim your unique identifiers
• Claim or reject publications
• Add a publication manually
• Favourite or hide a publication
• Claim your grants and awards
• Add a grant or award manually
• Favourite or hide a grant
• Amend grant data (for grants that ended before 1st August 2025)
• Add your professional activities
• Upload a photo
• Add your biography, research and teaching interests, labels for your availability and Sustainable Development Goals and other profile details
• Add your pronouns, set your preferred name or delegate management of your profile
• View your public profile
• Edit someone else's profile as a Delegate or Research Manager
• Make a Technical Specialist profile public

Training video

A recorded training session.