John de Laeter Research Centre

Established in 1998, the John de Laeter Centre (JdLC) is a core research infrastructure facility for characterisation instrumentation at Curtin University, Western Australia. The Centre houses over $50M of advanced instrumentation across 14 individual Facilities which are supported by dedicated research infrastructure specialists.

The JdLC is one of the largest concentration of cutting-edge geoscience characterisation instrumentation in the world which is why we are able to strongly support Curtin’s top global ranking in the field and attract a diverse range of project aligned to the minerals industry. The JdLC provides quantitative data used to understand processes of Earth and planetary evolution, characterise the nature of resources and materials upon which our society depends, and monitor our changing environment.

The Centre is open to collaborative research projects, non-collaborative access to the equipment by qualified users for research purposes, and commercial services.

JdLC will be moving into the Future Sciences Building upon completion.  This 20,000 square metre facility infrastructure is presented here in a video presentation by Professor Melinda Fitzgerald, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Research.