With its large experimental research facilities, the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) offers the international scientific community a unique combination of complementary methods for structural research and spectroscopy. The Institute and the users' laboratory are known in particular for their work in the area of bio- and materials sciences, solid-state and physics research, as well as a major part of the country's energy research.
Established in 1988 from the merger of the Swiss Institute for Nuclear Research and the Federal Institute for Reactor Research, the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), based in Villigen, has 1,200 full-time equivalent posts and a budget of about CHF 260 million.
