BASE Lab

Beamlines for Autonomous Science and Engineering

We build the software infrastructure to hardwire UK Exascale computing directly to beamlines. We replace deterministic testing schedules with autonomous, AI-driven control loops that navigate the search space of material degradation in real-time.

X-ray fluorescence map of a Zn-ion battery cathode (V K-edge in red, Zn K-edge in blue), 100 nm pixel size.

A joint research group between the University of Greenwich and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. Part of M34Impact, funded by the Faraday Institution and STFC.

X-ray fluorescence nanoprobe mapping of Vanadium (red) and Zinc (blue) k-edges at 100nm resolution for a next generation Zn-ion battery cathode

News

Apr 2026 — PhD position open: The Self-Driving Microscope. Applications close 17 April.

Mar 2026 — Jon Valijonov’s first preprint: D2IM-Strain on direct strain field prediction in bone.

Feb 2026 — Fluid inclusions in natron submitted to Nature Portfolio — first observation of fluid inclusions in a mineral predicted on Enceladus.

Jan 2026 — Two arXiv preprints: the BASE Scale taxonomy for autonomous facilities and Heuristic Operando Experimentation.

Sep 2025 — BASE Lab launched at the University of Greenwich as part of M34Impact.

Feb 2025 — Calum Green’s multimodal synchrotron dataset published in Scientific Data.

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