A new collaboration points to the future of data

EPFL and the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) join forces to establish a new PSI research division: Scientific Computing, Theory, and Data. In collaboration with EPFL, the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) is officially expanding its own focus areas and establishing a new research division: Scientific Computing, Theory, and Data. Here researchers will increasingly focus on the development of new computer and data technology and its use in science. The new research division is PSI's sixth, joining five previously established divisions: Biology and Chemistry; Research with Neutrons and Muons; Nuclear Energy and Safety; Energy and Environment; and Photon Science. "Computer-aided sciences and the use of high-performance computing are anything but new at PSI," Institute Director Christian Rüegg asserts. "But now we are giving them an appropriate basis in our organisation and, with that, the possibility to take up important developments in these future-oriented topics even better than before and to work on them more intensively. Together with strong partners in the ETH Domain, we are going to expand the data sciences, the simulation of materials, and the area of artificial intelligence." Comprehensive computer simulations, modelling, and theoretical calculations represent an essential component of the natural and engineering sciences.