Elettra Synchrotron Trieste S.C.p.A. is a multidisciplinary international research center, specialized in generating high quality synchrotron and free-electron laser light and applying it in materials science. Elettra storage ring feeds 28 beamlines where versatile experimental stations enable research in diverse fields and disciplines offering almost all existing synchrotron-based scattering, spectroscopic, micro-spectroscopic and imaging techniques, including also lithography and sample fabrication. These facilities enable the international community of researchers from academy and industry to characterize material properties and functions with sensitivity down to molecular and atomic levels.