Research infrastructures
World-class research requires high-quality facilities, databases, laboratories, collections, and biobanks. We host six national research infrastructures and participate in numerous national and international ones.
MAX IV
At MAX IV, of the world’s brightest and most powerful lights is created. It allows scientists to understand how materials are built and how they can be used better than ever before. The facility's 16 experimental stations are used by both universities and industry.
They conduct research in areas such as:
- chemistry
- materials science
- nanotechnology
- structural biology.
European Spallation Source (ESS)
A unique materials research facility is being built in north-east Lund that will have the world's most powerful neutron source when completed. Here, researchers will be able to study different types of materials to understand how they are constructed and function.
Among other things, they will be able to research:
- energy
- materials science
- medicine and health
- environmental research
- transport.
European Spallation Source (ESS)
Humanities Lab
The Humanities Laboratory studies all forms of human behaviour. The lab offers equipment, expertise and methodological training on everything from eye movements and brain activity to 3D scanning, virtual reality (VR), statistics and language technology. Users include researchers from all faculties, as well as societal actors from, for example, the cultural sector and businesses.
They conduct research in areas such as:
- cognition
- communication
- culture and society.
Inter Arts Center (IAC)
IAC promotes artistic research and interdisciplinary collaborations between researchers, artists and other external actors. It offers advanced audio and video technology and organises public events such as performances, concerts, exhibitions and seminars.
Recurring research themes include:
- immersive technologies (VR, AR, spatial sound)
- instrumental and vocal experiments
- sound art, electronic and electroacoustic live music
- contemporary dramaturgy and post-dramatic theatre
- art and sciences.
Lund Laser Centre (LLC)
LLC is a unique hub for research in optics, spectroscopy and laser physics. It houses over 30 state-of-the-art research laboratories and around 200 lasers. The laboratories are open to both researchers and industry.
They conduct research in areas such as:
- atomic, molecular and optical physics
- chemistry
- quantum and plasma physics and materials science
- medical diagnostics and treatment.
SciLifeLab Lund
SciLifeLab Lund is part of the national research centre SciLifeLab, with a focus on life sciences. The centre offers advanced technology and expert support in areas such as DNA sequencing, mass spectrometry, high-resolution microscopy and AI-based data analysis. The centre is open to researchers, industry and the healthcare sector.
They conduct research in areas such as:
- bioinformatics
- cell biology
- genomics
- proteomics
- structural biology.
In Lund, there are nine research infrastructures linked to SciLifeLab.
The following links may lead to external websites.
- CBCS – Chemical Biology Consortium (chemical biology and gene editing)
- CRYO-EM – cryo-electron microscope (cellular and molecular imaging)
- CTG – Centre for Translational Genomics (clinical genomics)
- DST – Display and Selection Technologies (drug development)
- NBIS – bioinformatics infrastructure (bioinformatics)
- Structural proteomics (spatial biology and single-cell biology)
The following links may lead to external websites.
InfraLife – collaboration between SciLifeLab, MAX IV and ESS
A national life sciences initiative to maximise the benefits of Sweden's large-scale research infrastructures.
National and international infrastructures
Lund University hosts six national infrastructures and participates in several national and international research infrastructures supported by the Swedish Research Council.
Following links may lead to external websites.
- ACTRIS Sweden – infrastructure for aerosols, clouds and reactive trace gases
- BioMS – infrastructure in biological mass spectrometry
- Huminfra – infrastructure that coordinates resources based on advanced quantitative analyses in the humanities and social sciences
- MAX IV – national synchrotron radiation facility
- ICOS Sweden – integrated carbon observation system
- The Swedish research drilling rig ‘Riksriggen’
Following links may lead to external websites.
- ARTEMI – Transmission Electron Microscopy in Materials Science (through nChrem)
- Biobank Sweden
- CBCS – Chemical Biology Consortium
- InfraVis – infrastructure for data visualisation
- The icebreaker Oden – research platform for polar research
- NBIS – bioinformatics infrastructure
- NEAR – e-infrastructure for aging research (through Good Aging in Skåne)
- Myfab – cleanroom-based nanotechnology laboratories (through Lund Nano Lab)
- PPS – Protein Production Sweden (through LP3 – Lund Protein Production Platform)
- SBDI – e-infrastructure for biodiversity data
- SND – Swedish national data service
- SNIC – e-infrastructure for large-scale computing and storage (through LUNARC)
- STR – Swedish Twin Registry
- Super ADAM – Swedish neutron reflectometer at the European neutron research facility ILL – Institut Laue-Langevin
- Swe-Clarin – e-Science infrastructure for digital language data (through the Humanities Lab)
- SweDigArch – infrastructure for digital archaeology (through the Laboratory for Digital Archaeology DARK Lab)
- SweNMR – nuclear magnetic resonance infrastructure (through the NMR Centre)
- Swedpop – population data infrastructure (through SEDD – Scanian Economic Demographic Database)
Following links may lead to external websites.
- AGATA – European germanium detector for nuclear structure research
- ALICE – a large ion collider experiment at the LHC particle accelerator at CERN
- ATLAS – a toroidal LHC machine at the LHC particle accelerator at CERN
- ELT – the world's largest telescope (through the Swedish ELT Instrumentation Consortium)
- EPOS – infrastructure for scientific data and services related to the solid Earth
- ESS – facility for neutron scattering after spallation
- ISOLDE – facility at CERN that delivers radioactive beams for research in nuclear physics, nuclear astrophysics, weak interaction studies and condensed matter physics
All infrastructures at Lund university
You will find all research infrastructures in our research portal.
Institute of advanced Neutron and X-ray Science (LINXS)
The Institute strengthens neutron and X-ray research and education by connecting ESS and MAX IV with researchers from around the world.
At the Institute, researchers from different disciplines and organisations can explore new ideas and research questions, engage in discussions and exchange ideas on experimental methods, sowing the seeds of new and exciting collaborations.