Daresbury Laboratory
Operating since 1962, Daresbury
Laboratory - now part of the Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
- is one of Europe's largest multidisciplinary research
organisations supporting scientists and engineers
world-wide.
Daresbury Laboratory has a staff of 550 who support the work of
over 5,000 scientists and engineers, mainly from the university
research community, with collaborations with industrial and
commercial partners becoming increasingly commonplace. The
laboratory is responsible for several large-scale facilities and
has expertise in such fields as: synchrotron light
exploitation; accelerator science;
advanced instrumentation; advanced engineering; high
performance computing; nuclear physics and modelling
and simulation.