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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.

Photo: Jens Olof Lasthein
 

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. 

Askö Laboratory

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.

Norunda Research Station

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.

Tarfala Research Station

Tovetorp Research Station 

At Tovetorp Research Station in Södermanland, research in ethology, ecology and education is conducted.

Tovetorp Research Station

Zeppelin Research Station 

The Svalbard station is used to study the atmosphere as well as marine and polar ecosystems and glaciers. 

Zeppelin Research Station

 

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.

R/V Electra of Askö

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

Plant Growth Facility

 

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

Institute for Solar Physics

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.

Nordical Optical Telescope

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.

nordita.org

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.

Stockholm Mathematics Center

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.

SciLifeLab

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. 

Vetenskapens hus

 

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

AlbaNova Telescope

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

Core Processing Laboratory

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

 

 

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