Welcome to the
International Union of Crystallography

The IUCr is an International Scientific Union. Its objectives are to promote international cooperation in crystallography and to contribute to all aspects of crystallography, to promote international publication of crystallographic research, to facilitate standardization of methods, units, nomenclatures and symbols, and to form a focus for the relations of crystallography to other sciences. Read more »

Announcements

  • Aminoff Laureate 2025

    Congratulations to Simon Billinge, Section Editor of Acta Crystallographica Section A, for being named the 2025 Aminoff Laureate by The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences!

  • Distinguished Lectures on Quantum Crystallography and Complementary Fields

    Nicolas Claiser (Université de Lorraine, France) and Huibo Cao (Neutron Scattering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA) will present the next two lectures in this online series on Thursday 3 October 2024 at 16:00 CET. Please see here for more information.

  • IUCr and ResearchGate announce new partnership for complete journals portfolio

    The IUCr and ResearchGate have announced a new partnership that will drive readership and authorship for IUCr Journals through ResearchGate’s innovative Journal Home offering. “We’re very pleased to be partnering with ResearchGate for the IUCr’s complete portfolio of journals, supporting our goals to ensure high-quality peer-reviewed structural science research reaches the widest possible community,” said Alex Stanley, IUCr CEO. See here for more information.

  • LAAAMP call for 2025 FAST Team applications

    A call for applications for Faculty-Student (FAST) Teams to spend two months during 2025 at participating advanced light sources is now open. Deadline: 31 October 2024. Read more here.

  • International Decade of Sciences for Sustainable Development, 2024–2033

    An important outcome of the International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development (2022/2023) was the proclamation of the International Decade of Sciences for Sustainable Development (IDSSD; 2024–2033). The IUCr was pleased to support the Year and is now proud to support the Decade, with the IUCr President, Professor Santiago García-Granda, due to attend a meeting of the Steering Committee on 9 February 2024. IDSSD will be formally launched in Colombia in October 2024, and aims to foster a more transdisciplinary approach to problem-solving and a scientifically literate global population. Read more.

The best in crystallographic research

Uniquely among International Scientific Unions, the IUCr publishes its own primary research journals. Acta Crystallographica Sections A–F, IUCrJ, Journal of Applied CrystallographyJournal of Synchrotron Radiation and IUCrData communicate the highest quality peer-reviewed research findings across the many scientific areas to which crystallography is relevant.

Meetings and webinars

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27th IUCr Congress

Calgary, Canada; 11-18 August 2026


Regional Associate meetings
[ACA]
ACA2024
Denver, CO, USA
7-12 July 2024

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AsCA2024
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
1-6 Dec 2024

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ECM34
Padova, Italy
26-30 August 2024

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LACA VI
Montevideo, Uruguay
23-26 September 2024

IUCr Corporate Associates

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