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Institute of Science and Technology Austria
The Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) is an international research institute in natural and formal sciences, located in Maria Gugging, Klosterneuburg, 20 km northwest of the Austrian capital of Vienna. It was established and inaugurated by the provincial government of Lower Austria and the federal government of Austria in 2009.
ISTA was established on the model of the Israeli Weizmann Institute of Science by its former president Israeli physicist Haim Harari. Like in the Weizmann Institute, scientists are encouraged to pursue their own goals and ideas not restricted by government or economic interest and all research themes are interdisciplinary.
As of 2024, ISTA consists of 84 research groups covering the fields of chemistry, biochemistry, physics, astronomy, earth science, mathematics, computer science, data science, biology, neuroscience and evolution & ecology. It is expected to grow to about 90 research groups by 2026, and 150 groups by 2036 following commitments from the federal state and Lower Austria. Its graduate school offers an interdisciplinary doctoral program in the life, formal and physical sciences. As of 2024, 365 students were enrolled.
The idea of creating a scientific flagship organization for research and postgraduate studies at the highest level was proposed by Austrian physicist and Nobel laureate in physics of 2022 Anton Zeilinger in 2002 at the annual technology forum in Alpbach. After several studies about the feasibility of creating such an institute, a working group was formed in the Austrian federal ministry of education and science and the four provinces of Lower Austria, Upper Austria, Styria and Vienna put in bids to host the new institute. In 2005, the council of ministers decided to build the institute in Klosterneuburg, Lower Austria.
In 2006, an international group of three scientists including Haim Harari, Olaf Kuebler and Hubert Markl were invited by the Federation of Austrian Industries to advise the establishment of the institute and create a road map for it. They published a report in June 2006 that became the foundation of ISTA.
The federal law on the Institute of Science and Technology Austria was passed in May 2006 and an agreement between the government of Lower Austria and the Federal government of Austria was reached in July.
Positions for the first president, professors and tenure track professors were advertised in 2007. Nick Barton was the first faculty to join. On December 4, 2008, computer scientist Thomas Henzinger was appointed as the first president of ISTA effective September 1, 2009. His contract was extended in 2013, 2016, and 2020, but Henzinger then said that we would not serve the full term. At the beginning of 2023, Martin Hetzer became president of ISTA while Thomas Henzinger stayed at ISTA as a professor.
In 2022, the abbreviation of the institute's name was changed from "IST Austria" to "ISTA".
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Institute of Science and Technology Austria
The Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) is an international research institute in natural and formal sciences, located in Maria Gugging, Klosterneuburg, 20 km northwest of the Austrian capital of Vienna. It was established and inaugurated by the provincial government of Lower Austria and the federal government of Austria in 2009.
ISTA was established on the model of the Israeli Weizmann Institute of Science by its former president Israeli physicist Haim Harari. Like in the Weizmann Institute, scientists are encouraged to pursue their own goals and ideas not restricted by government or economic interest and all research themes are interdisciplinary.
As of 2024, ISTA consists of 84 research groups covering the fields of chemistry, biochemistry, physics, astronomy, earth science, mathematics, computer science, data science, biology, neuroscience and evolution & ecology. It is expected to grow to about 90 research groups by 2026, and 150 groups by 2036 following commitments from the federal state and Lower Austria. Its graduate school offers an interdisciplinary doctoral program in the life, formal and physical sciences. As of 2024, 365 students were enrolled.
The idea of creating a scientific flagship organization for research and postgraduate studies at the highest level was proposed by Austrian physicist and Nobel laureate in physics of 2022 Anton Zeilinger in 2002 at the annual technology forum in Alpbach. After several studies about the feasibility of creating such an institute, a working group was formed in the Austrian federal ministry of education and science and the four provinces of Lower Austria, Upper Austria, Styria and Vienna put in bids to host the new institute. In 2005, the council of ministers decided to build the institute in Klosterneuburg, Lower Austria.
In 2006, an international group of three scientists including Haim Harari, Olaf Kuebler and Hubert Markl were invited by the Federation of Austrian Industries to advise the establishment of the institute and create a road map for it. They published a report in June 2006 that became the foundation of ISTA.
The federal law on the Institute of Science and Technology Austria was passed in May 2006 and an agreement between the government of Lower Austria and the Federal government of Austria was reached in July.
Positions for the first president, professors and tenure track professors were advertised in 2007. Nick Barton was the first faculty to join. On December 4, 2008, computer scientist Thomas Henzinger was appointed as the first president of ISTA effective September 1, 2009. His contract was extended in 2013, 2016, and 2020, but Henzinger then said that we would not serve the full term. At the beginning of 2023, Martin Hetzer became president of ISTA while Thomas Henzinger stayed at ISTA as a professor.
In 2022, the abbreviation of the institute's name was changed from "IST Austria" to "ISTA".