The Bernal Institute hosts a multidisciplinary team of world-leading materials scientists and engineers at UL. Bernal represents a €100m+ investment in world-class characterization, modelling and manufacturing facilities concentrated in 20,000 m of high quality research space.

Our Mission is to develop disruptive technologies related to Health, Energy and Environment that will create a legacy of scientific achievement in structured materials research that benefits future generations.

The Bernal Institute will host its 2nd International Annual Advanced Structured Materials Conference (AStruM). The thematic purpose of AStruM 2022 is to address the global grand challenges in Health, Energy, the Environment and the Circular Economy.