Research infrastructures
High-quality research requires functional and advanced infrastructure
Lund University is home to high-quality and experimental facilities, databases, laboratories, collections and biobanks that are essential for cutting-edge research. The University hosts and participates in several national and international infrastructures.
MAX IV
Lund University is the home of the world's first fourth-generation synchrotron light source MAX IV. The facility is a national research infrastructure within materials and life sciences.
The light from MAX IV is up to one hundred times stronger than that delivered by previous generations of light sources. The facility allows researchers to understand, under more realistic conditions and with greater detail than ever before, how a material is affected or might be used.
MAX IV hosts visiting researchers from around the globe. They conduct research on areas including:
- materials science
- structural biology
- chemistry
- nanotechnology.
MAX IV (link)
European Spallation Source (ESS)
A unique materials research facility based on the world's most powerful neutron source is under construction in north-east Lund.
The ESS will pave the way for future research breakthroughs in:
- energy
- materials
- medicine
- environmental science
- transport.
European Spallation Source (ESS) (link)
Humanities Lab
In the lab, researchers measure eye movements, brain activity and movements of the organs of speech or the whole body. They use 3D scanning, virtual reality, professional audio and video equipment, as well as large volumes of text and collections from endangered languages.
Inter Arts Center (IAC)
The IAC provides facilities and technical resources for artistic research and experimentation in areas such as art, dance and theatre. It is also a place open to experimental artists from different disciplines beyond academia.
The IAC has facilities for larger events and equipment such as microphones, PA systems, cameras, lighting and video systems for conferences.
Lund Laser Centre (LLC)
LLC is a unique centre for research in optics, spectroscopy and laser physics, with over 30 state-of-the-art research laboratories and around 200 lasers. Basic, experimental and applied research is undertaken here, in areas such as:
- atomic, molecular and optical physics
- chemistry
- medical diagnosis and treatment
- quantum and plasma physics, and materials science.
The LLC includes the Lund High Power Laser Facility, with several powerful femtosecond laser systems, several laboratories in combustion diagnostics and biophotonics, a laboratory for quantum optics and a number of other specialised laboratories for ultra-fast chemical dynamics.
SciLifeLab Lund
SciLifeLab is a national research centre for molecular biosciences. Advanced research within life sciences in areas such as health, the environment and climate is conducted at the centre.
Lund has nine research infrastructures linked to SciLifeLab. Six of these are part of SciLifeLab's technology platforms and three are local core facilities.
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 and participates in several national and international research infrastructures that are 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.