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UCL Profiles / IRIS (Symplectic Elements tenancy)

UCL Profiles is UCL's public research-information and researcher-profile directory, successor to the IRIS research portal (iris.ucl.ac.uk now redirects to it). It is a Symplectic Elements Discovery tenancy: profiles.ucl.ac.uk CNAMEs to ucl.discovery.symplectic.org. The publication, grant and researcher records are UCL's; the platform, the data model and any API surface belong to Symplectic (Digital Science). No institution-operated contract is published for it, and no Symplectic contract is saved under UCL.

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: ucl:profiles
name: UCL Profiles / IRIS (Symplectic Elements tenancy)
description: 'UCL Profiles is UCL''s public research-information and researcher-profile directory, successor
  to the IRIS research portal (iris.ucl.ac.uk now redirects to it). It is a Symplectic Elements Discovery
  tenancy: profiles.ucl.ac.uk CNAMEs to ucl.discovery.symplectic.org. The publication, grant and researcher
  records are UCL''s; the platform, the data model and any API surface belong to Symplectic (Digital Science).
  No institution-operated contract is published for it, and no Symplectic contract is saved under UCL.'
humanURL: https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/
tags:
- Research Information
- Researcher Profiles
- CRIS
- Symplectic
tags_raw:
- Research Information
- Researcher Profiles
- CRIS
- Symplectic
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/
x-operator: tenant
x-operator-evidence: 'DNS: profiles.ucl.ac.uk -> ucl.discovery.symplectic.org -> lb.eu.discovery.symplectic.org.'
x-vendor: Symplectic (Digital Science)
x-probe:
  url: https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/
  status: 200
  note: JavaScript-rendered shell, 3.3KB
  checked: '2026-08-19'