World-class facilities to accelerate your research
As Australia's national university, we are committed to the development and provision of national-scale and high-impact research infrastructure for Australian researchers, students and partners. World-class research infrastructure is critical to Australia's capacity to undertake world-leading research, attract international talent, and transform the future economy of Australia.
ANU is strongly connected to the Australian Government's National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS), which contributes to the delivery of distinctive research. ANU hosts the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI), Australian Earth System Simulator (ACCESS-NRI), and headquarters for the Heavy Ion Accelerator Facility and Phenomics Australia.
Additionally, the University is engaged with the majority of NCRIS capabilities as a node or partner. ANU also serves as the coordinating office for Australian participation in a number of international scientific endeavours, including the Giant Magellan Telescope, the International Ocean Discovery Program, and Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory.
ACCESS-NRI
The Australian Earth-System Simulator National Research Infrastructure (NRI) provides a computer modelling framework to support Australia’s Earth System research.
AuScope
AuScope is Australia’s provider of research infrastructure to the national geoscience community. ANU delivers AuScope capabilities through the cluster in Research School of Earth Science: the ANSIR National Facility for Earth Sounding, Australian and New Zealand International Scientific Drilling Consortium (ANZIC), Australian Seismometers in Schools (AUSIS) Network, Simulating the Solid Earths Dynamics and Evolution Project, and The Australian Passive Seismic Server (AusPass).
Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC)
PARDC accelerates Australian research and innovation by driving excellence in the creation, analysis and retention of high-quality data assets. We partner with the research community and industry to build leading-edge digital research infrastructure to provide Australian researchers with competitive advantage through data.
Bioplatforms Australia (BPA)
Bioplatforms Australia (BPA) supports Australian life science research by investing in state-of-the-art infrastructure and expertise in genomics, proteomics, metabolomics and bioinformatics. The Biomolecular Resource Facility (BRF) is the ANU service node of BPA, working closely with ANU Bioinformatics Consultancy (ABC) and ANU Centre for Therapeutic Discovery (ACTD) in delivering research service capabilities.
Heavy Ion Accelerator
The project operates world-leading particle accelerators for a wide variety of scientific and industrial applications. Our ANU node Heavy Ion Accelerator Facility (HIAF) supports fundamental and applied science, including nuclear physics, astrophysics, medical physics, resource extraction, environmental science and space radiation.
Microscopy Australia
We are a consortium of university-based microscopy facilities united by values of collaboration, accessibility, excellence and innovation. Jointly, the CAM and the CT lab form the ANU Advanced Imaging Precinct (AIP), a Microscopy Australia facility node.
National Computational Infrastructure
The National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) is home to the Southern Hemisphere’s most highly-integrated supercomputer and filesystems, Australia’s highest performance research cloud, and one of the nation’s largest data catalogues—all supported by an expert team.
Phenomics Australia (PA)
Providing world-class infrastructure and expertise, collaborating for research excellence, and advocating and partnering for impact, Phenomics Australia will drive the discovery of the molecular basis of disease to benefit the health of all Australians.
ANU hosts the headquarter of PA’s Executive Team and delivers its research service capabilities through the ANU Centre for Therapeutic Discovery (ACTD) and the Australian Phenomics Facility (APF)
Australian Plant Phenomics Network (APPN)
APPN provides leading edge plant phenomics research infrastructure, technologies, services, tools and expertise in sensing, imaging and analytics. The ANU node of APPN provides access to a range of plant phenomics equipment and expertise in certified quarantine and GM facilities.
Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF)
The ANFF ACT Node and ANFF OptoFab are hosted within the Research School of Physics at ANU, delivering research service capabilities through state-of-the-arts equipment in ANU Department of Electronic Materials Engineering and the Laser Physics Centre, enabling research in the development and fabrication of micro/nano-photonic related devices, photonic crystals and waveguides, primarily focused on III-V compound semi-conductor materials.
