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High-impact research through state-of-the-art infrastructure.

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Research facilities

High-impact research through state-of-the-art infrastructure.
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Our Core Research Facilities provide access to world-class equipment and expertise for researchers and industry as they tackle some of the greatest challenges of today.

The University of Sydney operates eight world-class Core Research Facilities across 23 sites, offering access to over 500 cutting-edge instruments supported by more than 100 highly skilled platform scientists and technicians.

State-of-the-art instrumentation and outstanding technical expertise is essential for research at the frontiers of our fields.

Simon Ringer

Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research Infrastructure)

“State-of-the-art instrumentation and outstanding technical expertise is essential for research at the frontiers of our fields.”

Simon Ringer

Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research Infrastructure)

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Our facilities

Our Core Research Facilities are home to an ever-evolving suite of frontier capabilities, including first-in-country technologies. They have been central to advancing knowledge across a range of fields including medicine and health, advanced manufacturing, quantum computing biomedical engineering, life and earth sciences, digital humanities and cultural heritage, and many more.

Research and Prototype Foundry

Offers instruments for the fabrication of devices and structures with features on the micro and nano scale.

Sydney Analytical

Provides high end capability in vibrational spectroscopy, magnetic resonance, X-ray diffraction and scattering, protein production and characterisation, and drug discovery.

Sydney Cytometry

Provides cutting-edge instrumentation for flow cytometry, cell sorting, image cytometry, mass cytometry and genomic cytometry.

Sydney Imaging

Offers world-class imaging capabilities and technical expertise in the field of biomedical science.

Sydney Informatics Hub

Provides expertise in research data management & computing, statistics, data science, software engineering, simulation, visualisation and bioinformatics.

Sydney Manufacturing Hub

Delivers cutting-edge expertise in additive manufacturing and materials processing to serve both fundamental and applied research.

Sydney Mass Spectrometry

Provides state–of-the-art tools and expertise for proteomics, metabolomics and mass spectrometry imaging for the life and biomedical science communities.

Sydney Microscopy and Microanalysis

Enables insights into how materials work – at the scale of living cells, tissue, molecules, crystals and even individual atoms.

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National Strategy

The National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) is a federal government initiative that provides funding for major research facilities, supporting infrastructure and networks to drive research excellence. NCRIS builds collaborations between researchers, government and industry to deliver practical outcomes to complex issues challenging our society.

The University of Sydney is involved in the following NCRIS projects:

View from the labs

Take a look inside some of our world-class Core Research Facilities.

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Inside Sydney Microscopy

Veritasium's Derek Muller visits Sydney Microscopy and Microanalysis lab

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