Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)

🌍 Website: https://stfc.ukri.org/

STFC is a world-leading multi-disciplinary science organisation, with the goal of delivering economic, societal, scientific and international benefits to the UK and its people – and more broadly to the world. STFC's strength comes from its distinct but interrelated functions:

1. Universities: STFC supports university-based research, innovation and skills development in astronomy, particle physics, nuclear physics, and space science
2. Scientific Facilities: STFC provides access to world-leading, large-scale facilities across a range of physical and life sciences, enabling research, innovation and skills training in these areas
3. National Campuses: STFC works with partners to build National Science and Innovation Campuses based around their National Laboratories to promote academic and industrial collaboration and translation of research to market through direct interaction with industry
4. Inspiring and Involving: STFC helps ensure a future pipeline of skilled and enthusiastic young people by using the excitement of the sciences to encourage wider take-up of STEM subjects in school and future life (science, technology, engineering and mathematics)

STFC supporst an academic community of around 1,700 in particle physics, nuclear physics, and astronomy including space science, who work at more than 50 universities and research institutes in the UK, Europe, Japan and the United States, including a rolling cohort of more than 900 PhD students.

STFC's large-scale scientific facilities in the UK and Europe are used by more than 3,500 users each year, carrying out more than 2,000 experiments and generating around 900 publications. The facilities provide a range of research techniques using neutrons, muons, lasers and x-rays, and high performance computing and complex analysis of large data sets. They are used by scientists across a huge variety of science disciplines ranging from the physical and heritage sciences to medicine, biosciences, the environment, energy, and more. These facilities provide a massive productivity boost for UK science, as well as unique capabilities for UK industry.