Our Mission

1. Promote magnet-related research to serve an interdisciplinary scientific user community spanning materials science, condensed matter physics, magnet technology, chemistry, and biology.
2. Provide unique high-magnetic-field facilities through a competitive and transparent proposal review process.
3. Advance magnet and magnet-related technology via high-risk, high-reward projects.
4. Partner with universities, other national laboratories and industry to enhance national competitiveness in magnet and related technologies.
5. Serve the NSF as a prominent example of its successful stewardship of large research facilities.
6. Serve as a successful model as
   1. a multi-site national laboratory
   2. a collaboration among our three partner institutions: Florida State University (FSU), the University of Florida (UF) and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
   3. a partnership of the federal and state government
   4. a partnership of the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy
7. Support science and technology education in the United States.
8. Increase diversity in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics workforce of today and tomorrow.

We focus on four objectives to implement these goals:

• Develop a wide range of user facilities and services for magnet-related research at the frontiers of science that are open to all qualified scientists and engineers
• Advance magnet and magnet materials technology in cooperation with industry
• Promote a stimulating multidisciplinary research environment and administer a high-quality in-house research program that uses and advances the facilities
• Develop an extensive educational outreach program that capitalizes on the unique resources of the lab in order to address national needs in science, research, technology and related fields.