Research Facilities

The School is located in a spacious, purpose-designed building which has been upgraded to modern specifications and provides excellent support and facilities for research. Technical support is provided by the School's well-equipped and very skillfully staffed electronics and mechanical workshops and by specialist research technicians. A Principal Experimental Officer supports the Biomedical Physics Group and a Senior Experimental Officer provides high-level IT support for the School. Other School services include a helium liquefier producing 55,000 liquid litres of helium per year, nitrogen liquefiers, materials processing and clean rooms. High-speed networking has been installed throughout the School, and following a £2M grant from HEFCE's Joint Research Equipment Initiative, the School's computing facilities are now amongst the most powerful in the UK.