Finding and contacting other researchers can be done in many different ways.

You can click on the link under 'View Researcher Database' from the front page to see all researchers registered on the site or sort them by research specialty or country. You'll see a page displayed showing all the researchers, and by clicking on their username you'll be able to access their profile, view their recent blog entries, and contact them. You can also search through this list.

Likewise, anywhere you see a user's name - on a blog entry, on a comment, etc. - you can click on that username to view the researcher's profile, and get a better idea of what they do.

Once you've viewed a user's profile, you may wish to contact them personally for more information, outside of the framework of the network. You can do so at any time while viewing a user's profile by clicking on the 'contact' tab, which will bring you to a page where you can enter your message to that user.

Note that 'your' email address will be made available to the user so that they can reply to you; when they do reply you will have each other's email addresses and can then continue the conversation however you wish.