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ISTA Researcher Wins Zero Emissions Award
Lavinia Saltarelli receives 385,000 euros for climate-relevant research
June 16, 2026
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How Proteins Breathe
… and what makes them freeze
June 15, 2026
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Second Term for President Martin Hetzer
First term “strengthened international reputation, research capacity, talent acquisition, and research transfer to economy and society.”
June 11, 2026
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Human Traits Beyond Inherited Genes
ISTA scientists reveal complex genetic connections between generations
June 9, 2026
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Organizations Welcome Commitment to Funding
Science & Research Essential to the Country’s Prosperity
May 27, 2026
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Cell Movement in the Embryo
Zebrafish study at ISTA shows: without keratin, nothing moves
May 21, 2026
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Plant Stress and Unique cAMP Signaling
Plants evolved distinct functions for two forms of a fundamental signaling molecule
May 8, 2026
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Superconductivity That Shouldn’t Exist?
ISTA physicists dissect the mind-boggling properties of a strange quantum material
April 29, 2026
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Do Memories Form on a Blank Slate?
How thought networks in the hippocampus develop after birth
April 27, 2026
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Anabaena Learns a New Trick
Cyanobacteria surprise scientists with evolutionary shift
April 16, 2026
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Archaeology of Star Magnetism
ISTA team presents theoretical evidence for ‘fossilized’ magnetism in stars
April 14, 2026
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Microbial Hockey
ISTA scientists discover how bacteria rotate tiny pucks
April 7, 2026
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Two’s Company: New Class of Star Remnants
ISTA scientists find X-ray emitting, highly magnetic, rapidly rotating white dwarfs
March 31, 2026
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Three Professors New Members of ÖAW
Sylvia Cremer, Amelia Douglass, and Alicia Michael among newly elected members
March 26, 2026
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ISTA’s First Schmidt Science Fellow
David Vijatovic joins prestigious global program for young science talent
March 25, 2026
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SCIENCE STORY
Keynote by Francesca Pellicciotti
Recording from the VISTA Opening Festival
March 24, 2026
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Understanding Mountain Water
$9.5 million project combines fieldwork, advanced modeling, AI, and community engagement
March 19, 2026
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Colliding Dust and the Sparks of Creation
ISTA scientists explain static electricity in the most abundant solid insulators
March 18, 2026
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New Emerging Fields Project
ISTA Professor Anđela Šarić & colleagues receive FWF grant for pioneering scientific work
March 9, 2026
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Enhancing Nature’s Catalysts
ISTA welcomes synthetic chemist Julia Reisenbauer as an assistant professor
February 25, 2026
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Big Data and Human Height
Algorithmic innovation in genetic analysis of complex traits
February 18, 2026
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Explaining Next-Gen Solar Cells
ISTA physicists explain the exceptional energy-harvesting efficiency of perovskites
February 16, 2026
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ISTA Lecture with Cynthia Dwork
Differential privacy: public methods for private data
February 5, 2026
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ISTA Researchers Recognized in 2025
Honors across disciplines and career stages highlight institutional excellence
January 30, 2026
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On the Frontiers of Geometric Topology
Xujia Chen: New woman mathematician joins the ISTA faculty
January 28, 2026
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ERC Grant to Bring Privacy to LLMs
European Research Council supports AI research at ISTA with Proof of Concept grant
January 27, 2026
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ISTA Receives €5 Million Donation for AI Research
Uber co-founder Garrett Camp’s first gift to a European institute shows ISTA’s global appeal
January 24, 2026
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Obituary: Peer Bork
ISTA mourns the loss of a distinguished member of its Scientific Board
January 19, 2026
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Keynote by Michael John Gorman
Recording from the VISTA Opening Festival about science in times of misinformation
January 15, 2026
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Behind Nature’s Blueprints
ISTA physicists create ‘theoretical rulebook’ of self-assembly
January 8, 2026
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Geometry Shapes Life
Embryo geometry has to be firm—without it, cells would be all over the map
January 5, 2026
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Five Faculty Promotions in 2025
Johann Danzl, Xiaoqi Feng, Stefan Freunberger, Maximilian Jösch & Marco Mondelli
December 30, 2025
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ÖAW-ISTA Lecture with Lisa Kaltenegger
The quest for exoplanets and life beyond Earth
December 16, 2025
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Two ERC Consolidator Grants
4 million Euro boosting theoretical quantum physics and biophysics
December 9, 2025
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Ants Signal Deadly Infection
Early disease detection in the colony: Ants signal incurable sickness to save others
December 2, 2025
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Science Is like Magic, Just Real
ISTA physicists overcome a fundamental limitation of acoustic levitation with charge
December 1, 2025
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Hidden in Plain Sight
ISTA scientists detect new climate pattern in the tropics
November 24, 2025
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Trapping Particles to Explain Lightning
ISTA scientist captures tiny particle for clues on cloud electrification
November 20, 2025
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EU Commissioner Zaharieva Visits ISTA
Top official for start-ups, research and innovation engaged with scientists & students
November 18, 2025
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The Future Fate of Water in the Andes
What if the ongoing 15-year megadrought hits Chile again at the end of the century?
November 18, 2025
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Reaching for the (Quantum) Scars
ISTA scientists solve complex quantum problems with the help of classical physics
November 13, 2025
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Carbon Footprint of Conference Travel
ISTA scientists examine the sustainability of travel to international NMR meetings
November 10, 2025
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Under the Tundra’s Spell
Researchers and the changing Siberian landscape
October 14, 2025
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Destined to Melt
ISTA study confirms: Glaciers are fighting a losing battle against climate change
October 13, 2025
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New ISTA Kindergarten Officially Opens
Contemporary space fosters balance between family and work life on campus
October 6, 2025
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Taming the “Bad” Oxygen
From cell damage to empty batteries, ISTA chemists put singlet oxygen on a leash
October 1, 2025
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New Quantum Physicist Joins ISTA
Veronika Sunko to explore emergent states of quantum matter in a unique lab
September 25, 2025
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Snapdragon Secrets
ISTA scientists collect snapdragon flowers in the Pyrenees to trace their ancestry
September 22, 2025
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2025 Ig Nobel Prize for Perfect Pasta Sauce
ISTA postdoc Fabrizio Olmeda receives the “Nobel Prize of hearts”
September 19, 2025

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Jun 22, 2026
11:30 am
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Nanofluidics and the power of interfaces: new perspectives for energy conversion Nanofluidics and the power of interfaces: new perspectives for energy conversion
Cecilia Herrero, ENS Paris
Jun 18, 2026
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TCS Seminar – From Sorting under Partial Information to Universal Optimality TCS Seminar – From Sorting under Partial Information to Universal Optimality
Daniel Rutschmann, ISTA
Jun 18, 2026
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Boundary q-characters of finite-dimensional representations of quantum affine symmetric pairs Boundary q-characters of finite-dimensional representations of quantum affine symmetric pairs
Jianrong Li, University of Vienna
Jun 18, 2026
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Nonlinear kinetic equations as gradient flows Nonlinear kinetic equations as gradient flows
Filippo Quattrocchi, Université Paris-Saclay
Jun 23, 2026
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Singular Values of Random Matrix Products and Random Band Matrices Singular Values of Random Matrix Products and Random Band Matrices
Reuben Drogin, Yale University
Jun 30, 2026
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A transport approach to the cutoff phenomenon A transport approach to the cutoff phenomenon
Francesco Pedrotti, ETH Zürich
Jun 30, 2026
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Jul 2, 2026
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Sep 22, 2026
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JOURNAL ARTICLE

Physics-inspired procedural texturing of extremely deformable surfaces

Aleksei Kalinov, Mickaël Ly, Christian Hafner, Christopher J Wojtan

ACM Transactions on Graphics 2026

SOFTWARE

Quadrix

Yossi Bleile, Emanuele Cortinovis

2026

PHD THESIS

Overcoming degeneracy and singularity : Techniques for semidefinite programs and homotopy continuation endgames

Jeferson Zapata

2026

PHD THESIS

How epistasis and purifying selection shape genetic diversity

Kseniia Khudiakova

2026

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A hypothalamic circuit for anticipating future changes in energy balance

Samuel J. Walker, Elijah D. Lowenstein, Amelia May Barnett Douglass, Callum M.P. Thomas, Joseph C. Madara, Hakan Kucukdereli, Eunice A. Barbosa-Meillon, Jenkang Tao, Jon M. Resch, Bradford B. Lowell

Neuron 2026

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Synchronizing fields with singularities

Natalia Pacheco-Tallaj, Matteo Couplet, Edward Chien, David Palmer

SIGGRAPH: International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques 2026

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Dynamic disorder is crucial for mitochondrial protein import

Jakob Schneider, Undina Guillerm, Caroline Simoes Pereira, Paul Schanda

Protein Science 2026

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A computationally efficient and accurate method for predicting conductance of single-molecule junctions

Artem Gulyaev, Jyotisman Hazarika, Zhen-Fei Liu, Latha Venkataraman

Nano Letters 2026

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