AIA SCIENCE AS

Their core work

AIA SCIENCE AS is a Norwegian technology SME based in Trondheim that develops AI-driven platforms for high-performance computing, with an original focus on scaling industrial operations. Their 2018 AIASGA project — an SME Phase 1 feasibility study — positioned them as a company building computational infrastructure for industry. By 2019 they had shifted into fundamental physics computing, contributing as a third party to EuroPLEx, a major European network for lattice QCD and extreme computing research. The bridge between both activities is advanced computational methods: the same HPC expertise that powers industrial AI platforms also underpins the large-scale numerical simulations used in particle physics.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

In 2018, AIA SCIENCE entered H2020 with a purely industrial mandate — building an AI platform to optimise industrial operations using HPC, with no scientific research keywords recorded. By 2019 they had pivoted toward fundamental computational physics, becoming a third party in EuroPLEx, a pan-European MSCA training network dealing with quantum field theory, string theory, and lattice QCD. This shift suggests that their HPC infrastructure became attractive to academic physics networks, or that the founders have a dual background in applied computing and theoretical physics. The trajectory moves from industry-facing product development toward deep-science computation.

AIA SCIENCE is moving toward the intersection of extreme computing and fundamental physics research, making them a potential niche partner for future projects combining HPC infrastructure with quantum field theory or lattice gauge simulations.

How they like to work

AIA SCIENCE has both led a project (AIASGA, as coordinator under SME-1) and contributed as a third party in a large multi-institution network (EuroPLEx). Their third-party role in EuroPLEx — rather than full partner — suggests they provide a specific service or resource rather than leading research work. With 20 consortium partners across 9 countries encountered through just two projects, their network breadth comes primarily from participation in the wide EuroPLEx network, not from repeated bilateral partnerships.

Despite only two projects, AIA SCIENCE has been exposed to 20 unique partners across 9 countries, almost entirely through the EuroPLEx MSCA network. Their geographic reach is European, with the Trondheim base situating them in Norway's main research and technology corridor.

What sets them apart

AIA SCIENCE occupies an unusual niche as a private SME that has one foot in industrial AI product development and another in fundamental particle physics computing — a combination almost never seen in a two-person-scale company. Their Trondheim base places them near NTNU, Norway's leading technical university, which likely explains their access to the EuroPLEx physics network. For a consortium builder, they represent a rare bridge between commercial HPC platform expertise and the extreme-scale computing demands of lattice field theory research.

Highlights from their portfolio

• AIASGA
  This SME Phase 1 coordinator role is the clearest signal of AIA SCIENCE's core commercial identity — an AI + HPC platform for industry — and is the only project for which they received direct EC funding.
• EuroPLEx
  A large MSCA-ITN training network for particle physics and lattice field theory spanning multiple European universities; AIA SCIENCE's third-party involvement signals HPC or data processing contributions to frontier physics computing.