The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research is an international intergovernmental organization, a world-famous scientific centre integrating fundamental theoretical and experimental research with the development and application of advanced technology and university education.
The Institute has a wide range of large and very large-scale research infrastructure, which overall represents one of the world’s largest multidisciplinary research infrastructures, managed through a deeply integrated model of international scientific and technical cooperation.
Expert analysis shows that almost half of modern projects in basic sciences have accompanying programmes of applied research aimed at Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).
JINR’s fields of science occupy a priority position in the global scientific agenda, ensuring the development of large-scale research infrastructure. The international dimension, interdisciplinary research programme, and JINR’s large infrastructure projects harmoniously complement the global scientific agenda and the world landscape of large research infrastructures, implying, alongside the main goals in fundamental research, the achievement of certain SDG.
Research directions at JINR:
- Theoretical Physics
- Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics
- Spin Physics
- Particle Physics
- Low Energy Nuclear Physics
- Neutron Nuclear Physics
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Neutrino & Astroparticle Physics
- Life Sciences: Radiobiology, Biomedicine, Structural Biology, Astrobiology, Ecology
- IT & High-Performance Computing
JINR has 7 laboratories, each comparable in the research scale to a large academic institution:
- Veksler and Baldin Laboratory of High Energy Physics (VBLHEP)
- Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems (DLNP)
- Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics (BLTP)
- Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics (FLNP)
- Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions (FLNR)
- Meshcheryakov Laboratory of Information Technologies (MLIT)
- Laboratory of Radiation Biology (LRB)
The JINR Scientific Council develops the scientific policy and forms strategic, medium-term, and annual research plans, relying on specialised expert Programme Advisory Committees and Science and Technology Councils of the JINR laboratories.
The results of JINR’s research and overall activities undergo a multi-level expert review, from the Science and Technology Councils of the laboratories to the Institute’s Scientific Council, and are approved by the Committee of Plenipotentiaries of the Governments of the JINR Member States.
Relativistic heavy ion physics & spin physics
The Institute is implementing a megascience project — the NICA (Nuclotron-based Ion Collider fAcility) superconducting heavy ion collider with the BM@N, MPD, SPD detectors as well as the ARIADNA complex for applied research.