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Data & Analytics Facility for National Infrastructure
DAFNI is the National Platform to satisfy the computational needs in support of data analysis; infrastructure research; and strategic thinking for the UK’s long term planning and investment needs.
The platform will support academic research that is aiming to provide the UK with a world leading infrastructure system that is more: efficient, reliable, resilient and affordable.
It will achieve this by enabling the research community to conduct research that is able to generate new insights at a higher level of detail and accuracy than ever before.

The key to research and innovation for infrastructure systems now lies in data. DAFNI enables the secure and reliable sharing of data so that researchers and innovators can solve problems and provide new solutions. If DAFNI didn’t exist, we would have to invent it! But we don’t have to because the team at STFC have been working for eight years to develop a data and modelling infrastructure that can provide the simulation and digital twin solutions that our infrastructure systems urgently need.”
Prof. Jim Hall
Chair of DAFNI Governance Board
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Register for our 2025 conference!
Our next conference will be taking place on 11th September 2025 and will be held at The Edge, University of Sheffield. The theme this year will be 'Bridging the Gap between Academia and Industry' and the importance of collaborative research and how it is key to future ...
Newsletter 2nd December 2024
Working together for resilient infrastructure - DAFNI Conference 2024 Over 150 in-person delegates came together for DAFNI’s day-long annual conference on 10th September 2024, to discuss the theme of ‘Working Together for Resilient Infrastructure’. The conference included ...
A wonderful first Belfast roadshow!
We were so pleased with the great turnout for the DAFNI Belfast roadshow on 28-29 October 2024, where speakers from across Northern Ireland presented their research and where we discussed research into infrastructure systems and the challenges and opportunities of data ...
Networkshop
DAFNI (the Data & Analytics Facility for National Infrastructure) held the inaugural DAFNI Networkshop on 21st May 2024 at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. The day-long event provided the opportunity for DAFNI users to meet each other in-person, make new connections, ...
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