IFIN-HH, or the “Horia Hulubei” National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, located on a large and diverse physics campus in Bucharest-Magurele, is a public institution funded from public funds, “dedicated to the research and development in physical and natural sciences, mainly Nuclear Physics and Nuclear Engineering, and in related areas including Astrophysics and Particle Physics, Field Theory, Mathematical and Computational Physics, Atomic Physics and Physics of Condensed Matter, Life and Environmental Physics. In all these fields, IFIN-HH conducts theoretical and experimental research” (according to its mission statement; see http://nipne.ro). It is recognized as one of the visible research institutions for research in low and intermediate-energy nuclear physics in Europe. With its staff over 700 (2019) it is the largest research institute in Romania, as personnel, assets, publications, results and international prestige.

Linked ChETEC facilities

• Tandem Accelerator Complex (TAC)
• Romanian Ultra-low Radiation Background Laboratory (microBq)

Web page

• http://www.ifin.ro/index.php

ChETEC contact person

• Livius Marian Trache (livius.trachenipne.ro)