
Ada Lovelace Centre
The Ada Lovelace Centre (ALC) is a multi-disciplinary centre of expertise in research, software engineering and data management, enhancing the scientific impact of STFC’s large-scale national facilities.
The ALC uses integrated approaches to address and solve scientific data challenges by:
- Improving how data is handled and processed within STFC facilities to extract greater scientific value and enhance understanding
- Coordinating activities across facilities to exploit cross-cutting opportunities in scientific computing
- Building and maintaining software and data infrastructure capabilities for facilities
- Forming a critical mass of staff and skills aligned to the scientific data challenges of the large facilities
- Supporting research and development activities in software engineering, data management, computational and AI methods and simulation


ALC represents an exciting opportunity to help further expand links to and across the STFC national facilities, drive new research and development to meet emerging needs, and ultimately make a significant and transformative impact on the broad range of science at the facilities.
Dr Paul Quinn, Director, Ada Lovelace Centre
Machine learning tool to understand living cells and identify new drug treatments for diseases
Researchers at STFC Scientific Computing, the Rosalind Franklin Institute and The Alan Turing Institute have developed Affinity-VAE, a powerful machine learning tool with the potential to automate cryo-ET image processing, saving time, money, and energy, For more information, please click the link below.