Object template
Principal Investigator
Principal Investigator is a CASRAI object template identifying the researcher who leads and takes responsibility for a research activity.
Principal Investigator identifies the researcher who leads a research activity, recording their name together with a typed unique person identifier.
The object lets a research activity or grant record reference its lead investigator consistently, forming part of the CASRAI-derived structured object model.
Fields
4 fields
| Field name | Type | Definition | Bound to |
|---|---|---|---|
| Family Name* | text | A person's surname. | — |
| First name | text | A person's given name. | — |
| ID Type | picklist | The nominal type of unique ID used for a principal investigator. | person-id-types |
| ID | identifier | The unique ID used for a principal investigator. | — |








