The Institute's profile of basic/applied research combines studies related to nuclear energy and various fields of subatomic physics (elementary particle physics, nuclear physics, hot plasma physics, etc.) with non-nuclear applications using various forms of radiation. The center is deeply involved in the development of nuclear technologies and the promotion of practical applications of nuclear physics methods. The main market products produced at the Centre are radiopharmaceuticals and a range of particle accelerators for science, various industries, and medicine.

The National Centre for Nuclear Research is one of the largest scientific institutes in Central Europe. The Centre operates the MARIA research nuclear reactor and has a number of advanced research instruments and laboratories, particularly useful in materials research and modification, as well as radiography. It also has its own computing center. New research infrastructures are currently being developed at the institute: the CERAD Laboratory, which will be equipped with a world-class cyclotron for the production of radioisotopes, the superconducting PolFEL free-electron laser, and the Regional Neutronography Laboratory using neutron beams from the MARIA reactor. There is also ongoing work on the concept of building a pioneering high-temperature gas-cooled research reactor at the Centre.

A particularly important area of NCBJ's activities is basic research in the fields of high energy, nuclear, and atomic physics, as well as astrophysics, astronomy, and cosmology. These are mostly conducted within broad international collaborations, including participation in the conception, analysis, and construction of apparatus for large international experiments.

In brief

The Institute's activities result in a high publication output (over 500 items per year) of high quality confirmed by the number of citations (Hirsch index H>190), as well as numerous accreditations, certificates, awards, and distinctions. This also results in a high interest from foreign students in the opportunity to undertake doctoral studies at the institute (currently, we have about 30 foreign students studying with us).