  The LHCb experiment is one of the major research projects at the Large Hadron
Collider. Its acceptance and instrumentation is optimised to perform
high-precision studies of flavour physics and particle production in a unique
kinematic range at unprecedented collision energies. Using large data samples
accumulated in the years 2010-2012, the LHCb collaboration has conducted a
series of measurements providing a sensitive test of the Standard Model and
strengthening our knowledge of flavour physics, QCD and electroweak processes.
The status of the experiment and some of its recent results are presented here.
