AGH University of Science and Technology is one of the best and most renowned modern Polish universities. It has been ranked at the top of the list of institutions of higher education for many years. AGH UST is a leading Polish university in modern technologies, and belongs to a group of prestigious international educational centers. It has many advantages: its own campus with excellent facilities for 9,000 students, conveniently located for the university buildings, modern research base, collaboration with other universities in Poland and abroad and an excellent atmosphere of study. Students receive education in 58 disciplines and more than 200 specializations: traditional faculties closely connected with mining and metallurgy, faculties dealing with computer science, telecommunications, automatics, robotics, new materials, technical physics, applied mathematics, as well as management and social sciences. New disciplines include Culture Studies, Geophysics, Oil and Gas Engineering, Medical Physics, Acoustic Engineering. Presently, the university employs more than 2,000 research workers (550 independent researchers). AGH UST has signed 200 general agreements with foreign partners in Europe, both Americas and Asia. It has signed collaboration agreements with about 300 industrial companies. The agreements concern scientific, research and educational collaboration.

Dr. Iwona Grabowska-Bold, professor at the AGH UST, will be the main researcher involved in the project. She has been acting as a contact person from the ATLAS Collaboration to the LHC-Combine activities. Her primary contribution to the project is connected with rare processes such as light-by-light scattering and top-quark pair production in lead-lead and proton-lead collisions.

AGH UST has specific roles in JRA1-LHC-Combine.

EC funds in JRA1-LHC-Combine.