About the Ada Lovelace Centre
We are a is a multidisciplinary computing centre of excellence based on science campuses at Harwell and Daresbury. We are part of STFC scientific computing and are funded by UKRI. We have around 60 members of staff and draw on the full pool of STFC scientific computing experts.
By enabling more efficient and impactful experiments for thousands of academic and industrial users, we strengthen UK science and drive economic growth through innovation and cost-effective research.
Our mission: Innovative computing for ambitious science
We solve big and complex computing and data challenges to help the STFC National Laboratories run more efficiently and optimise discovery from scientific experiments. We do this by harnessing the latest advances in high performance computing, artificial intelligence, mathematics and data engineering.
Our strength is our ability to integrate wide ranging expertise and know-how to deliver leading solutions and workflows which address critical science needs. Our work supports research teams to make sustainable and innovative decisions about computing and data analysis.
We share our expertise widely; across scientific facilities and beyond, to help design the next generation of instruments and facilities, and to upskill the research technical professionals and scientists of the future.
Our objectives
O1: Maximise the scientific impact and operational efficiency of STFC National Laboratories
O2: Embed transformative technologies to enable frontier capabilities including AI at STFC National Laboratories
O3: Play a leading role in facility computing to deliver UK priorities and increase cross-facility collaboration
O4: Grow the UK’s talent pool with computing skills to fully exploit STFC National Laboratories
Our STFC National Laboratory partners
The STFC National Laboratories operate research facilities that are large, complex, and strategically important to the UK. These include the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, Central Laser Facility and the Diamond Light Source Synchrotron. We provide scientific computing expertise and innovation to help researchers do bigger and better science.
Our digital research infrastructure partners
We work alongside other UK digital research infrastructure programmes including:
Our funding
We are funded by STFC and UKRI’s Digital Research Infrastructure programme in recognition of the growing scale of data challenges across STFC National Laboratory science facilities.
Enquiries
For more information and all enquiries, please contact us.