Our facility

With £125 million investment from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), RUEDI will be the only facility in the world offering relativistic ultrafast electron diffraction and imaging measurement capabilities.

This game-changing microscope capability will facilitate breakthroughs in scientific fields that span energy storage to material behaviour in extreme conditions.

Funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) through the UKRI Infrastructure Fund, RUEDI is being developed in collaboration with the University of Liverpool, Rosalind Franklin Institute, and STFC Daresbury.

Operating as part of an evolving national research infrastructure, RUEDI will form part of an ecosystem linking directly to shared research facilities at the University of Liverpool, including the Albert Crew Centre for Electron Microscopy and at other partner institutions.

RUEDI will be situated in the Northwest of England at the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) Daresbury Laboratory site.

In line with other national infrastructures, RUEDI will offer a ‘free at the point of use’ access for academic users.