The facility provides a service for all national forensic, archaeology and heritage science as well as for frequent international visitors (~10 per year). Geochemistry group led by Prof Davies (ERC synergy fellow), Dr Pieter Vroon and Dr Janne Koornneef (ERC starting grant) manage the national isotope facility at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. The facility is included in the current Europlanet 2020 research infrastructure and hence the team has the required support and extensive experience with hosting international visitors. The academic team is supported by technical staff and has managed sveral research infrastructures, major EU grants, 5 ITN training networks, 100’s of national visitors and supervised > 30 PhD and > 100 MSc research projects.