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Interested in applying for a Year in Industry at the CLF? 👩🔬 👨🔬 Get a better idea of what your experience will entail by hearing directly from Ella, Narata, Thaddeus, and Ellie - our current 2024/2025 industrial placement students! 🌱 ➡️orlo.uk/qtJGN

2024 brought exciting progress to our Vulcan 20-20 project, HiLUX upgrade, and EPAC facility. However, our wonderful staff, users, and contractors are what really made the year special!⭐ Thank you all, and Merry Christmas from our CLF family to yours! Artwork by @HelenTowrie



We were delighted to show @PoppyGustafsson and team around EPAC today! We very much enjoyed your visit. ✨



Day 2 of the CLF High Power Laser Conference is complete! We shall soon find out who won the Student Poster Competition 👀🏆




The first people are beginning to arrive for the High Power Laser Christmas Conference here in Abingdon! ✨

Organic cooking emissions account for up to 10% of particulate emissions in the UK. But, what happens to them once they're out there?🤔 Research by @unibirmingham used @DiamondLightSou & a laser brought over from the CLF to help tackle this question. ➡️ orlo.uk/YnK8G

Science is linked to the Humanities in more ways than we may think. Join us as we explore the Humanities behind Science through our #STFCinContext campaign! Keep track of upcoming #STFCinContext projects from STFC's different departments here: linktr.ee/stfcincontext
Congratulations to @_Suman_Dutta for being awarded the Octopus/Ultra-Facility Access funded by @UKRI_News to analyse brain-derived extracellular vesicles in one of the world's leading laser facilities, @CLF_STFC 📸 Super-resolution images of #EVs by Suman @NDCNOxford @KavliOxford
Happy #EngineersDay!👷♀️ Over a year ago now, the CLF's Engineering Division: ✅Officially became the CLF's largest Division ✅Opened their brand-new state-of-the-art Engineering & Technology Centre Curious to know what they've been up to since then? ➡️ orlo.uk/CLFEngineers_h…




While installations for the HiLUX labs are underway elsewhere, this little room harbours a very important setup! This is a miniature replica of the new Ultra laser system which allows scientists test stuff, such as fully automated processes, ahead of the real thing! 🧑🔬


It's #NationalColorDay 🌈 a day to celebrate the impact colours have on our lives. "Colours", or wavelengths of light, are /everything/ when it comes to the different types of laser experiments we do. Scientists, what's your wavelength of choice?

This is how to show off your multi-tasking skills @AnaGherghelas @CLF_STFC
Today is the National Labs Conference, a hybrid event spanning across multiple STFC sites to highlight the various Research & Development projects going on. It's been great to be able to share what we're up to, as well as hear from the other departments! 🧑🔬👩🔬



Had a fantastic time at the LSF @CLF_STFC user meeting in St. Hilda's College Oxford. Well done @ClaraZehe, @dan_graczyk & Eleanor Windle @ucdchemistry on their fab poster presentations & huge congratulations to Daniel on winning the best student poster prize. 🥳📷.