Prof Insider

Get the research position you want.

Upload your resume once. Prof Insider finds professors who match your interests and experience, writes your emails, and multiplies your outreach.

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Reach 500,000+ professors from these universities

Every professor, fully profiled.

Papers, lab pages, open spots, and when they actually reply.

Drop in your resume. Get your matches.

We read your experience and sort every professor into match or skip.

Not generic AI. Written in your voice.

Real details from your resume and their research. Ask for a change and it's made.

With a chatbot

Dear Professor Vasquez,

I hope this email finds you well. My name is Priya, and I am a highly motivated, detail-oriented, and passionate student eager to delve into the ever-evolving landscape of scientific research.

Your groundbreaking work in biology deeply resonates with me. It's not just innovative—it's a testament to your unwavering commitment to the field.

I am confident I would be a valuable addition to your esteemed lab. Thank you for your time and consideration!

Warm regards, Priya

  • Could be anyone
  • Clichés
  • No real details

With Prof Insider

Hi Professor Vasquez,

I read your 2025 paper on how chaperones rescue misfolded proteins under heat stress and was struck by the single-molecule imaging approach.

Last summer I worked in a yeast genetics lab mapping stress-response mutants, which left me curious about how folding intermediates behave in vivo.

I'd love to contribute to this work as an undergraduate researcher this fall, and I can share my summer poster if helpful.

Best, Priya

  • Your voice
  • Real details
  • Per professor

Edit by asking.

Tell the agent what to change. It rewrites, you approve.

Connect Gmail. We handle the rest.

We send, follow up, and bring replies back here.

It's a numbers game.

Send enough emails and the offers come to you.

260 didn't continue past emails sent740 of 1,000 emails sent → opened530 didn't continue past opened210 of 740 opened → replied135 didn't continue past replied75 of 210 replied → calls47 didn't continue past calls28 of 75 calls → offers1,000Emails sent740Opened210Replied75Calls28Offers

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Questions?

What Prof Insider does and what happens when you reach out.

Every profile starts from a university's own faculty directory. We add recent papers from OpenAlex and ORCID, plus lab pages and contact details where the school publishes them. That covers more than 500,000 faculty at over 180 research universities in the US and Canada.

We read your resume and the research interests you pick at signup, then compare them with each professor's field and recent papers. Every professor lands in match or skip, and your matches are sorted by how close the fit is.

High school, undergraduate, and graduate students looking for research positions. You tell us your stage when you sign up, and drafts are written for it. A first-year asking to volunteer in a lab should sound different from a master's student asking about a PhD.

No. Coursework, class projects, a relevant job, or a club you ran all count. Drafts work from what is actually on your resume, so you never have to pretend to be further along than you are.

A chatbot writes the same email for every lab. Each Prof Insider draft is built from the professor's recent papers and your resume, and names the specific work that connects the two. No “I hope this email finds you well.”

Yes. Edit the draft yourself, or tell the agent what to change, like “make it shorter” or “mention my robotics project,” and it rewrites. You approve the final version.

No. You approve your emails before they go out. When a professor replies, the agent drafts a response and holds it for your review.

Yes. You connect your Gmail and emails send from your own account. They show up in your Sent folder, and replies land in your inbox like any other email.

More than feels comfortable. Plenty of professors never reply, often just because they are busy, so students who land positions usually reach out to many labs. Prof Insider makes that possible without writing every email by hand.

Spam is the same message sent to everyone. Each email here is written for one professor, about their work, from your own address, and only goes to professors who match your background.

No. Professors decide who joins their labs, and many have no open spots in a given term. We help you reach more of the right people with better emails. The decision is theirs.

Your resume is used to match you with professors and write your drafts. Gmail access is used to send your emails from your address. You can disconnect Gmail at any time.