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Pink Skies

ISTA researchers present new brain organoid model

April 3, 2025

SCIENCE STORY

Scientists Revive Extinct Dodo

Revolutionary breakthrough: 300 years after extinction, the Raphus species returns to life

April 1, 2025

RESEARCH NEWS

How Sleep Keeps Our Memories Fresh

Neural patterns reorganize during sleep to boost recollection

March 24, 2025

SCIENCE STORY

The First World Day for Glaciers

Interview with ISTA Professor Francesca Pellicciotti

March 21, 2025

RESEARCH NEWS

Hardware-Optimal Quantum Algorithms

ISTA PhD student spearheads efforts in tailoring algorithms to quantum hardware

March 18, 2025

RESEARCH NEWS

Updating the Textbook

ISTA scientists revise our knowledge about the auxin signaling mechanism in plants

March 5, 2025

RESEARCH NEWS

Cooling Materials–Out of the 3D Printer

ISTA researchers 3D print high-performance, sustainable thermoelectric materials

February 20, 2025

RESEARCH NEWS

An Electrifying Turn in an Age-Old Quest

Contact electrification depends on materials’ contact history, ISTA physicists show

February 19, 2025

RESEARCH NEWS

When Qubits Learn the Language of Fiberoptics

ISTA physicists achieve optical readout of superconducting qubits

February 11, 2025

RESEARCH NEWS

Video Optimization in Our Brain

ISTA scientists uncover how the brain unblurs vision during movement

February 10, 2025

INSTITUTE NEWS

ISTA Labs Certified as Sustainable

LEAF certification for more responsible research

February 7, 2025

RESEARCH NEWS

Dancing Bubbles Model a Cosmic Disaster

Quantum machine models how “false vacuum” decays into “dancing” cosmic bubbles

February 5, 2025

RESEARCH NEWS

The Globetrotter

New insight into the painted lady butterfly’s annual migration

February 4, 2025

INSTITUTE NEWS

ISTA Welcomes Three Faculty Members

Samara Ren, Michael Sammler, and Latha Venkataraman join the ISTA faculty

January 30, 2025

RESEARCH NEWS

Many Roads Lead to… the Embryo

ISTA shows evolution had many optimal outcomes to choose from

January 22, 2025

INSTITUTE NEWS

Neural Magic Acquired by Red Hat

ISTA’s First Startup Collaboration Achieves Milestone Exit in AI Technology

January 20, 2025

RESEARCH NEWS

The Megadroughts Are Upon Us

Forty-year study: Extreme droughts will become more frequent, severe, and extensive

January 16, 2025

INSTITUTE NEWS

“Ask the Science Grandma!”

New offers at ISTA for women (60+) and children (6-12 years)

January 2, 2025

INSTITUTE NEWS

Three Faculty Promotions in 2024

Anna Kicheva, Caroline Muller, and Florian Schur were promoted to professors

December 27, 2024

INSTITUTE NEWS

AI Residency for Francesco Locatello

ISTA Assistant Professor partners with Chan Zuckerberg Initiative as AI Resident

December 16, 2024

RESEARCH NEWS

Distinct Nerve Wiring of Human Memory

ISTA biologists team up with neurosurgeons to unravel the human brain’s specificities

December 11, 2024

INSTITUTE NEWS

Obituary: Claus J. Raidl

ISTA mourns guiding force of the Institute

December 10, 2024

RESEARCH NEWS

Love Thy Neighbor

How neighborhood enhances cooperation

December 6, 2024

INSTITUTE NEWS

No Economic Upswing without Research

Joint appeal by Austrian research institutions and funding agencies to government

December 5, 2024

INSTITUTE NEWS

Allen Distinguished Investigator at ISTA

ISTA Professor Anđela Šarić to lead a $1.5 million-funded project on active membranes

December 3, 2024

RESEARCH NEWS

A Matter of Time

New ISTA research shows how tissue development is temporally organized

November 27, 2024

RESEARCH NEWS

New Era in Amphibian Biology

ISTA scientists use harmless viruses to investigate the nervous system in frogs

November 26, 2024

INSTITUTE NEWS

ELLIS: Enabling Excellence in AI Research

ELLIS Unit Vienna at ISTA to push AI foundations and applications in science

November 21, 2024

RESEARCH NEWS

Seeing Memories Form

ISTA scientists take a deep look into memory processing inside the hippocampus

November 20, 2024

INSTITUTE NEWS

Bringing Quantum Mechanics to Life

New ISTA assistant professor Julian Léonard makes abstract quantum properties visible

November 12, 2024

RESEARCH NEWS

Hard in Theory, Easy in Practice

ISTA researchers investigate why graph isomorphism algorithms seem so effective

November 6, 2024

INSTITUTE NEWS

High-Tech Inventor to Further ML in Science

Machine learning expert, electrical engineer, and inventor Alex Bronstein joins ISTA faculty

October 30, 2024

RESEARCH NEWS

Dandelion-Shaped Supernova

ISTA astronomer Ilaria Caiazzo helps model a unique historical supernova in 3D

October 25, 2024

RESEARCH NEWS

Understanding Impacts of Mutations

ISTA scientists propose a novel framework to study “polygenic” diseases

October 24, 2024

RESEARCH NEWS

Evolution in Real Time

ISTA scientists predict—and witness—evolution in a 30-year marine snail experiment

October 11, 2024

RESEARCH NEWS

From Chaos to Structure

How a bunch of seemingly disorganized cells go on to form a robust embryo

October 10, 2024

INSTITUTE NEWS

One Million Euro Funding

ISTA researcher receives NOMIS Grant

October 9, 2024

INSTITUTE NEWS

Cluster of Excellent Brains

ISTA neuroscience part of FWF Cluster of Excellence with 21 million Euro research funding

October 4, 2024

INSTITUTE NEWS

Ylva Götberg Named to TIME100 Next

ISTA Assistant Professor Ylva Götberg named to TIME’s list of 100 emerging leaders

October 2, 2024

SCIENCE STORY

A Centralized Database of All Math

A Mathlib developer at ISTA: Graduate student Martin Dvořák’s ‘side-project’

September 27, 2024

INSTITUTE NEWS

Austria’s Math Award to Matthew Kwan

Austrian Mathematical Society recognizes Kwan’s contributions

September 26, 2024

RESEARCH NEWS

A Viral Close-Up

HTLV-1: A unique virus

September 25, 2024

INSTITUTE NEWS

Exploring the Future of AI

Recap of the fully booked bigX 2024 by ISTA, xista, and IV

September 23, 2024

INSTITUTE NEWS

76 New PhD Students at ISTA

28 countries represented in the Institute’s largest PhD cohort to date

September 20, 2024

SCIENCE STORY

A Neuroscience Network Across Continents

From Imbizo–a computational neuroscience summer school in South Africa–to ISTA

September 18, 2024

RESEARCH NEWS

Big Algebras: Dictionary of Abstract Math

Abstract algebra and algebraic geometry to connect quantum physics with number theory

September 12, 2024

INSTITUTE NEWS

Cells, Data, Stars: New ERC Projects at ISTA

EU funding for recipients Lisa Bugnet, Alicia Michael, and Marco Mondelli

September 5, 2024

SCIENCE STORY

A Very “Clean Room”

Take a glimpse into ISTA’s Nanofabrication Facility

September 4, 2024

INSTITUTE NEWS

Star Lives and Afterlives

ISTA welcomes stellar evolution specialist Ilaria Caiazzo as an assistant professor

August 27, 2024

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Upcoming Events

Institute Colloquium

Hyperbolic Geometry of Google Maps Hyperbolic Geometry of Google Maps

Yuliy Baryshnikov, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Apr 7, 2025

11:30 am

Lecture

Learning and Teaching Bio-image Analysis in the Age of AI Learning and Teaching Bio-image Analysis in the Age of AI

Robert Haase

Apr 7, 2025

1:00 pm

Quantum Colloquium

Circuit QED with hole spins Circuit QED with hole spins

Simon Zihlmann, CEA Grenoble (FR)

Apr 8, 2025

11:00 am

Mathematics and CS Seminar

Cohomological integrality for quotient stacks Cohomological integrality for quotient stacks

Lucien Hennecart, University of Edinburgh

Apr 10, 2025

1:00 pm

Interaction of the local Langlands program with the generalized Springer correspondence Interaction of the local Langlands program with the generalized Springer correspondence

Anna-Marie Aubert, IMJ-PRG

May 15, 2025

1:00 pm

Institute Colloquium

Institute Colloquium Institute Colloquium

Jeroen Dobbelaere, Julian Renaud & Paul Falthansl, ISTA

May 26, 2025

11:30 am

Hamiltonian estimation in semiconductor spin qubits Hamiltonian estimation in semiconductor spin qubits

Jeroen Danon, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

May 27, 2025

11:00 am

Colloquium

Microwave to optical quantum transduction and optical frequency combs: Nonlinear optics in ultra-high quality resonators Microwave to optical quantum transduction and optical frequency combs: Nonlinear optics in ultra-high quality resonators

Harald Schwefel, University of Otago / New Zealand

Jun 17, 2025

11:00 am

Conference

TASC9/KASC16 Workshop TASC9/KASC16 Workshop

Jul 7, 2025

9:00 am

Institute Colloquium: Katie Breivik Institute Colloquium: Katie Breivik

Katie Breivik, Carnegie Mellon University

Oct 13, 2025

11:30 am

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NANOELECTRONICS

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THEORETICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL SOFT MATTER

Beatriz Vicoso

SEX-CHROMOSOME BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Jan Maas

STOCHASTIC ANALYSIS

Simon Hippenmeyer

GENETIC DISSECTION OF CEREBRAL CORTEX DEVELOPMENT

Tim Browning

ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY AND ITS INTERFACES

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JOURNAL ARTICLE

Recessed microelectrodes as a platform to investigate the intrinsic redox process of Prussian blue analogs for energy storage application

Nomnotho Jiyane, Carla Santana Santos, Igor Echevarria Poza, Mario Palacios Corella, Muhammad Adib Abdillah Mahbub, Gimena Marin-Tajadura, Thomas Quast, Maria Ibáñez, Edgar Ventosa, Wolfgang Schuhmann

Batteries and Supercaps 2025

JOURNAL ARTICLE

BCS critical temperature on half-spaces

Barbara Roos, Robert Seiringer

Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis 2025

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Polyploidization leads to salt stress resilience via ethylene signaling in citrus plants

Xin Song, Miao Zhang, Ting Ting Wang, Yao Yuan Duan, Jie Ren, Hu Gao, Yan Jie Fan, Qiang Ming Xia, Hui Xiang Cao, Kai Dong Xie, Xiao Meng Wu, Fei Zhang, Si Qi Zhang, Ying Huang, Adnane Boualem, Abdelhafid Bendahmane, Feng Quan Tan, Wen Wu Guo

New Phytologist 2025

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Understanding the machinery that reads the genome

Carrie A Bernecky

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 2025

JOURNAL ARTICLE

BMP-dependent patterning of ectoderm tissue material properties modulates lateral mesendoderm cell migration during early zebrafish gastrulation

Ste Tavano, David Brückner, Saren Tasciyan, Xin Tong, Roland Kardos, Alexandra Schauer, Robert Hauschild, Carl-Philipp J Heisenberg

Cell Reports 2025

PHD THESIS

Regulation of Cytoplasmic RNA Polymerase II

Annamaria Hlavata

2025

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Sensitivity of self-aggregation and the key role of the free convection distance

Alejandro Casallas Garcia, A.M. Tompkins, Caroline J Muller, G. Thompson

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 2025

PHD THESIS

Evolution of sex chromosomes, sex determination and asexuality in Artemia brine shrimp

Marwan N Elkrewi

2025

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