Facilities
Five core facilities, open to all.
Veyra's core facilities are shared infrastructure — built to serve the Institute's researchers but available to qualified external users at published rates. Each is staffed by dedicated facility scientists and open access five days a week.
Core facilities
Advanced Microscopy Centre
Cryo-EM, confocal, and AFM
Sub-nanometre to millimetre-scale imaging for materials, biological, and device specimens. Three primary instruments: the EM-200 cryo transmission electron microscope, MIC-7 spinning-disc confocal, and a Bruker AFM. Sample preparation, image acquisition, and quantitative analysis services are available alongside self-service bookings.
Meridian High-Performance Computing Cluster
2,400 GPU nodes for scientific computing
The Meridian cluster is Veyra's primary computational infrastructure. External allocations are available via the HPC-MER booking code at 44 cr/hr per node. The cluster runs SLURM, supports MPI and OpenMP workloads, and has a high-performance parallel filesystem for large dataset I/O. Application software includes a full scientific software stack.
Cleanroom & Nanofabrication Facility
Class-100 cleanroom with full lithography and deposition tools
A 480 m² class-100 cleanroom (ISO Class 5) housing photolithography, electron-beam lithography, physical and chemical vapour deposition, reactive ion etching, and metrology tools. External users must complete a chemical safety assessment and gowning induction before first access.
Spectroscopy & Analytical Core
NMR, mass spectrometry, and XRD
The analytical backbone of the Institute's materials and chemistry research. Anchor instruments are the NMR-600 (600 MHz, 5-mm broadband probe), the MS-Q9 high-resolution Q-Orbitrap mass spectrometer, and the Rigaku MiniFlex 7 diffractometer. Sample submission is open to external users with no induction requirement.
Veyra Biofoundry
Automated assay, synthesis, and high-throughput biology
Robotic liquid-handling platforms, automated compound management, and high-throughput screening for biological and chemical applications. The Biofoundry operates primarily as an operator-run service rather than self-access, making it accessible to users without specialist robotics training.
Open access
All five facilities accept external bookings from qualified users. No research relationship with Veyra is required.
External users complete a one-time induction process that includes a site orientation, a facility-specific safety briefing, and execution of the access agreement. Most users are cleared within five to ten working days of application. Once cleared, bookings can be made via the Facilities Portal with as little as 48 hours advance notice for most instruments.
Where an external user does not have training on a specific instrument, Veyra facility technicians can operate the instrument on the client's behalf at the published external rate plus a staffing surcharge. This operator-assisted mode is the default for the Biofoundry and is available on request for all other facilities.
Academic discount of 15% applies to all external users from accredited research institutions. Prepaid credit blocks (500 cr minimum) earn an additional 5% reduction.