I.S.T.A.

Geschichte

The Institute of Science and Technology Austria, commonly known as IST Austria, is a young international institute of basic research and graduate education in natural and mathematical 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 and is expected to grow to about ninety research groups by 2026.IST Austria is modeled after and combines the methods of ETH Zurich, Weizmann Institute, and the Max Planck Society. First-class, curiosity-driven research is the core value of the concept. Scientists are encouraged to pursue their own goals and ideas not restricted by government or economic interest.The institute currently consists of 42 research groups. Its graduate school offers PhD degrees in Biology, Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Neuroscience and Data Science and Computation as part of its ISTScholar program funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program and a Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant. As of 2015, 121 students were enrolled in the PhD program.