Faculty of science research infrastructure
The Faculty of Science has an extensive infrastructure consisting of research stations, centres, institutes and core facilities that enable high quality research in various disciplines.
Research Stations
Askö Laboratory
The Askö Laboratory is a field station for marine research and a national resource, located in the southern archipelago of Stockholm.
Navarino Environmental Observatory
At the field station in Navarino, Greece, research and education on climate and environment is conducted.
Navarino Environmental Observatory
Norunda Research Station
At Norunda Research Station, north of Uppsala, long-term measurements of short-lived climate-impacting substances and atmospheric pollutants are conducted. It also serves as a national resource within ACTRIS Sweden.
Tarfala Research Station
Tarfala Research Station, located in the Kebnekaise Mountains, is a field station for research and education on the Swedish alpine, glacial, and periglacial environments.
Tovetorp Research Station
At Tovetorp Research Station in Södermanland, research in ethology, ecology and education is conducted.
Zeppelin Research Station
The Svalbard station is used to study the atmosphere as well as marine and polar ecosystems and glaciers.
Staff-supported research infrastructure
Albanova Nanofabrication Facility
AlbaNova Nanolab offers access to state-of-the-art nanofabrication tools and processes. The facility is a collaboration with the Royal Institute of Technology.
Albanova Nanofabrication Facility
EFC – Experimental Core Facility
The ECF is a research infrastructure that provides opportunities for in vivo studies in basic biological research as well as research aimed at developing new treatment methods
EFC – Experimental Core Facility
EMC – Electron Microscopy Center
The Electron Microscopy Centre is a core facility and a national infrastructure with advanced equipment for transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM).
EMC – Electron Microscopy Center
NMR – Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility
The Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Facility is a core facility providing resources and expertise for the collection and interpretation of NMR data from solid state materials.
NMR – Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility
IFSU – Imaging Facility at Stockholm University
IFSU is a core facility for light and electron microscopy. The facility offers a number of advanced instruments.
IFSU – Imaging Facility at Stockholm University
IVMSU – The Intravital Microscopy Facility of Stockholm University
IVMSU is a national infrastructure for in vivo and in vitro studies of cells, tissues and organs.
IVMSU – The Intravital Microscopy Facility of Stockholm University
MACAL – Material Analysis Center at Arrhenius Laboratory
Currently, MACAL offers X-ray equipment, optical spectroscopy, surface analysis, thermal analysis and soft matter characterisation.
MACAL – Material Analysis Center at Arrhenius Laboratory
Mechanical workshop services
The mechanical workshops at AlbaNova and the Department of Geological Sciences are core facilities that offer high expertise and services in mechanical design and manufacturing.
Mechanical workshop at AlbaNova
Mechanical workshop at Department of Geological Sciences
R/V Electra af Askö
The vessel R/V Electra is stationed at the Askö laboratory but can be used across a wider marine area. It is ice-capable and equipped for both water and sediment sampling, as well as for geophysical instrumentation.
SPS – National Spark Plasma Sintering Facility
The facility can subject materials to rapid sintering cycles in a vacuum or inert atmosphere. The materials include ceramics, metals and alloys, intermetallics, composites, and porous materials
SPS – National Spark Plasma Sintering Facility
Plant Growth Facility
The plant collection is used for research and teaching. This diverse collection has been assembled from the 1960s to the 2000s
Research centres and institutes
Bergianska trädgården (Bergius Botanic Garden)
The Bergian Garden provides materials for research and education, particularly in plant systematics, evolution, and ecology. It also offers plant materials and, at times, cultivation space to researchers.
Bergianska trädgården (in English)
DESIREE – Double ElectroStatic Ion Ring ExpEriment
DESIREE is an experimental facility and national infrastructure for atomic and molecular physics. It is dedicated to the study of ion-ion collisions at low energy and low temperature.
DESIREE – Double ElectroStatic Ion Ring ExpEriment
Institute for Solar Physics
The Swedish Solar Telescope (SST) on the Canary Island of La Palma is a national research infrastructure. Research primarily focuses on the study of sunspots, small-scale magnetic fields, spectral line formation, and the solar chromosphere
Nordic Optical Telescope
The Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT) is a joint Nordic telescope located on the Canary Island of La Palma, used to study galaxies, supernovae, and other phenomena.
Nordita
Nordita is a research institute for theoretical physics founded in 1957 in Copenhagen. Since 2007, it has been based at Stockholm University. Its research interests include astrophysics, condensed matter physics, and high-energy physics.
Stockholm Mathematics Center
Stockholm mathematics centre (SMC) is a collaboration between Stockholm University and the Royal Institute of Technology. The centre coordinates education and research in mathematics between the institutions.
SciLifeLab
SciLifeLab is a national infrastructure that promotes molecular bioscience and life science in Sweden. It is a collaboration between Uppsala University, Karolinska Institutet, the Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm University.
SUBIC – Stockholm University Brain Imaging Centre
SUBIC offers state-of-the-art imaging technology, allowing for experiments using various techniques, including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), X-ray microscopy, electroencephalography (EEG), transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), and eye tracking, among others
SUBIC – Stockholm University Brain Imaging Centre
Vetenskapens hus
Vetenskapens Hus (the House of Science) offers school activities for grades F-9 and upper secondary school with the opportunity to explore science, technology and maths in a laboratory environment.
Other infrastructure and instruments
AlbaNova Telescope
The AlbaNova telescope is Sweden's largest optical telescope in use, with a mirror diameter of one metre and a focal length of eleven metres
Cryo-EM Swedish Infrastructure Unit
The infrastructure involves bioinformatics and computer science infrastructure as well as some specialised experimental platforms. The Cryo-EM Swedish Infrastructure Unit offers access to state-of-the-art equipment and expertise in single-particle cryo-EM and cryotomography (cryo-ET).
Cryo-EM Swedish Infrastructure Unit
Core Processing Laboratory (CPL)
The facility offers logging, scanning and photographing of sediment cores
Ice Core Processing Laboratory
Ice and snow storage as well as ice sample analysis.
Ice Core Processing Laboratory
The Reference Laboratory for Air Quality
The Reference laboratory for Air Quality is a support function for Sweden's municipalities in their task of measuring air quality.
The Reference Laboratory for Air Quality
MEL - The Marine Ecological Laboratory
The Marine Ecological Laboratory (MEL) at DEEP carry out field sampling and analyses of water chemistry, plankton, benthos and macrophytes with focus on the Baltic Sea.
MEL - The Marine Ecological Laboratory
NBIS – National Bioinformatics Infrastructure
The infrastructure offers customised support and tools, data management, systems development and life science guidelines.
NBIS – National Bioinformatics Infrastructure
PetroTectonics Analytical Facilities
The PetroTectonic Analytical Facilities provide geochemical and isotopic analyses of rocks for a variety of geological applications including petrology, mineralogy, fluid-flow and ore formation.
PetroTectonics Analytical Facilities
Sediment Lab
The sediment laboratory has equipment for the preparation and analysis of sediment samples.
Sediment Lab
SIL - Stable Isotope Laboratory
The stable isotope laboratory objective is to develop new methods for use in geochemistry and running samples for researchers.
SIL - Stable Isotope Laboratory
Slamlab - The Sediment (lake and marine) laboratory
The SLAM laboratory specialises in the analysis of marine and lake sediment sequences.
Slamlab – The Sediment (lake and marine) laboratory
Statistical consulting
The Department of Statistics offers consultation for researchers and doctoral students in the three faculties of Humanities, Law and Social Sciences at Stockholm University.
Statistical consulting
Stockholm University Tree-Ring Laboratory
The Facility is also known as the Dendrolab and is dedicated to research and education in the field of paleoclimatology.
Stockholm University Tree-Ring Laboratory
SeRC - Swedish e-Science Research Centre
The mission of the SeRC is to develop advanced e-Science tools and provide an e-Infrastructure that supports existing and new e-Science collaborations.
SeRC - Swedish e-Science Research Centre
Last updated: October 17, 2024
Source: The Office of Science