Awards
Several prestigious awards, memberships, and grants underscore the Institute’s success.
Honors, and distinctions are an important metric for measuring research excellence. ISTA is a hub for innovation in and beyond science. Several prestigious awards, memberships, and grants underscore the Institute’s success.
Selected awards and distinctions for members of ISTA:
International
Academy Award for Technical Achievement
- Bernd Bickel 2019*
Abarbanel Prize
- Alex Bronstein 2024
ACM SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award
- Chris Wojtan 2016
Boehringer Ingelheim FENS Research Award
- Gaia Novarino 2016
Carus Medal (Leopoldina)
- Carl-Philipp Heisenberg 2019
Charles Albert Shull Award (American Society of Plant Biologists)
- Jiří Friml 2016
Darwin Wallace Medal (Linnean Society of London)
- Nick Barton 2009
Dr. Otto Röhm Memorial Foundation Award
- Bart Pieber 2025
EMBO Gold Medal
- Jiří Friml 2012
European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) Award
- Tom Henzinger 2019
Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Prize
- Tim Browning 2021
Keilin Memorial Medal (Biochemical Society, UK)
- Leonid Sazanov 2022
Leonard Eisenbud Prize (American Mathematical Society)
- László Erdős 2022
Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research (American Mathematical Society)
- László Erdős 2026
Mendel Medal (Leopoldina)
- Nick Barton 2013
Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship
- Krishnendu Chatterjee 2011
Microsoft Visual Computing Award
- Bernd Bickel 2015*
- Chris Wojtan 2013
Milner Award (Royal Society London)
- Tom Henzinger 2015
Neuron Award for Lifetime Contribution to Science (Neuron Foundation, CZ)
- Jiří Friml 2019
Peter Seeburg Prize (Society for Neuroscience)
- Peter Jonas 2021
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Prize (Royal Society of Chemistry)
- Anđela Šarić 2022
SFARI Award (Simons Foundation, US)
- Gaia Novarino 2016
TIME100 Next (TIME’s list of 100 emerging leaders)
- Ylva Götberg 2024
Volker Heine Young Investigator Award
- Bingqing Cheng 2021*
National
Elisabeth Lutz Award (ÖAW)
- Sylvia Cremer 2015
Erwin Schrödinger Prize (ÖAW)
- Leonid Sazanov 2024
- Robert Seiringer 2023
- László Erdős 2021
- Peter Jonas 2018
- Jiří Friml 2015
- Nick Barton 2013
Förderungspreis of the Austrian Mathematical Society
- Matthew Kwan 2024
- Julian Fischer 2020
Fritz Kohlrausch Award (Austrian Physical Society)
- Johannes Fink 2018
Ignaz L. Lieben Award (ÖAW)
- Gašper Tkačik 2020
- Michael Sixt 2012
Ludwig Boltzmann Award (Austrian Physical Society)
- Maksym Serbyn 2019
- Mikhail Lemeshko 2017
Science Prize of Lower Austria
- Sandra Siegert 2025 (Anerkennungspreis)
- Dan Alistarh 2024 (Anerkennungspreis)
- Stefan Freunberger 2023 (Anerkennungspreis)
- Leonid Sazanov 2023 (Anerkennungspreis)
- Maksym Serbyn 2023 (Anerkennungspreis)
- Carl-Philipp Heisenberg 2017 (Würdigungspreis)
- Sylvia Cremer 2012 (Anerkennungspreis)
Wittgenstein Awards
- Jiří Friml 2024
- Monika Henzinger 2021
- Herbert Edelsbrunner 2018
- Peter Jonas 2016
- Tom Henzinger 2012
Memberships in Learned Societies
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellowship
- Tom Henzinger 2013
American Mathematical Society (AMS) Fellowship
- László Erdős 2021
- Robert Seiringer 2020
American Physical Society (APS) Fellowship
- Björn Hof 2017
EMBO Membership
- Edouard Hannezo 2025
- Gaia Novarino 2025
- Martin Hetzer 2024
- Peter Jonas 2019
- Leonid Sazanov 2018
- Eva Benková 2017
- Carl-Philipp Heisenberg 2016
- Nick Barton 2014
- Michael Sixt 2014
- Jiří Friml 2010
- Mario de Bono 2007
European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) Fellowship
- Tom Henzinger 2015
- Herbert Edelsbrunner 2014
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Nick Barton 1995
Fellow of the Royal Society of London
- Tom Henzinger 2024
- Leonid Sazanov 2019
- Nick Barton 1994
FENS-Kavli Scholar
- Lora Sweeney 2021
- Maximilian Jösch 2018
- Gaia Novarino 2016
Member of the Academia Europaea
- Tim Browning 2022
- Mario de Bono 2021
- Vadim Kaloshin 2021
- Robert Seiringer 2021
- Tamás Hausel 2020
- Jószef Csicsvári 2019
- Ryuichi Shigemoto 2017
- László Erdős 2015
- Peter Jonas 2015
- Monika Henzinger 2013
- Herbert Edelsbrunner 2009
- Tom Henzinger 2006
Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Tom Henzinger 2020
- Herbert Edelsbrunner 2005
Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)
Full Members
- Monika Henzinger 2017
- Herbert Edelsbrunner 2014
- Tom Henzinger 2011
Corresponding Members
- Robert Seiringer 2017
- László Erdős 2015
Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- Ryuichi Shigemoto 2022
- Carl-Philipp Heisenberg 2015
- Monika Henzinger 2014
- Herbert Edelsbrunner 2008
- Tom Henzinger 2005
- Peter Jonas 2001
Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- László Erdős 2001
Member of the Junge Akademie (Germany)
- Sylvia Cremer 2008–2013
Member of the National Academy of Sciences (USA)
- Nick Barton 2024
- Tom Henzinger 2020
Member of the Young Academy of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)
- Kimberly Modic 2024
- Hryhoriy Polshyn 2024
- Edouard Hannezo 2022
- Scott Waitukaitis 2021
- Mikhail Lemeshko 2020
- Stefan Freunberger 2017
- Beatriz Vicoso 2017
- Georgios Katsaros 2015–2023
- Jiří Friml 2014–2022
- Christoph Lampert 2013–2021
- Michael Sixt 2013–2021
- Sylvia Cremer 2011–2019
- Monika Henzinger 2010–2014
Grants of the European Research Council (ERC)
ERC Advanced Grant
- Johann Danzl 2025
- Zoltan Haiman 2025
- Tamás Hausel 2025
- Peter Jonas 2025
- Jiří Friml 2024
- Nick Barton 2022
- László Erdős 2021
- Monika Henzinger 2021
- Tom Henzinger 2021
- Leonid Sazanov 2021
- Vadim Kaloshin 2020
- Herbert Edelsbrunner 2018
- Carl-Philipp Heisenberg 2017
- Jiří Friml 2017
- Peter Jonas 2016
- Robert Seiringer 2016
- Ryuichi Shigemoto 2016
- László Erdős 2013
- Tamás Hausel 2013
- Tom Henzinger 2010
- Peter Jonas 2010
- Nick Barton 2009
ERC Consolidator Grant
- Edouard Hannezo 2025
- Maksym Serbyn 2025
- Xiaoqi Feng 2024
- Johannes Fink 2023
- Onur Hosten 2023
- Maximilian Jösch 2023
- Jérémie Palacci 2023
- Anna Kicheva 2022
- Gaia Novarino 2022
- Chris Wojtan 2022
- Martin Loose 2021
- Krishnendu Chatterjee 2019
- Tim Vogels 2019
- Sylvia Cremer 2017
- Francesca Pellicciotti 2017
- Daniel Zilberman 2017
- Simon Hippenmeyer 2016
- Michael Sixt 2016
- Krzysztof Pietrzak 2015
- Vladimir Kolmogorov 2013
ERC Proof of Concept Grant
- Dan Alistarh 2026
- Johannes Fink 2025
- Dan Alistarh 2024
- Sandra Siegert 2024
- Stefan Freunberger 2021
- Bernd Bickel 2018*
- Björn Hof 2016
ERC Starting Grant
- Amelia Douglass 2025
- Ylva Götberg 2025
- Lisa Bugnet 2024
- Alicia Michael 2024
- Marco Mondelli 2024
- Bingqing Cheng 2023*
- Hryhoriy Polshyn 2023
- Florian Praetorius 2023
- Matthew Kwan 2022
- Kim Modic 2022
- Florian Schur 2022
- Lora Sweeney 2021
- Julian Fischer 2020
- Scott Waitukaitis 2020
- Edouard Hannezo 2019
- Caroline Muller 2019
- Maksym Serbyn 2019
- Dan Alistarh 2018
- Xiaoqi Feng 2018
- Mikhail Lemeshko 2018
- Anđela Šarić 2018
- Johannes Fink 2017
- Maximilian Jösch 2017
- Bernd Bickel 2016*
- Jan Maas 2016
- Gaia Novarino 2016
- Sandra Siegert 2016
- Beatriz Vicoso 2016
- Anna Kicheva 2015
- Martin Loose 2015
- Chris Wojtan 2014
- Georgios Katsaros 2013
- Björn Hof 2012
- Christoph Lampert 2012
- Krishnendu Chatterjee 2011
- József Csicsvári 2011
- Jiří Friml 2011
- Michael Sixt 2011
- Krzysztof Pietrzak 2010
- Sylvia Cremer 2009
- Eva Benková 2008
ERC Synergy Grant
- Gašper Tkačik 2023
- Michael Sixt 2022
Internal Awards
Golden Chalk Award for Excellence in Teaching
- Chaitanya Chintaluri (Vogels Group) 2024
- Johann Danzl 2024
- Tim Vogels 2023
- Zhanybek Alpichshev 2022
- Tobias Meggendorfer (Chatterjee Group) 2021
- Beatriz Vicoso 2021
- Robert Seiringer 2019
- Georg Osang (Edelsbrunner Group) 2018
- Srdjan Sarikas (Barton Group) 2017
- Krishnendu Chatterjee 2016
- Hania Koever (Graduate School Office) 2015
- Simon Hippenmeyer 2014
- Herbert Edelsbrunner 2013
- Caroline Uhler 2013
- Chris Wojtan 2013
- Herbert Edelsbrunner 2012
- Gašper Tkačik 2012
Golden Sponge Award for Excellent Teaching Assistance
- Gianluca Tasinato (Wagner Group) 2024
- Haralds Baunis (Pieber Group) 2023
- Ece Sönmez (Jösch Group) 2023
- Sarath Sankar Suresh (Hof Group) 2022
- Guillaume Dubach (Erdős Group) 2021
- Bor Kavcic (Tkačik Group) 2021
- Julia Raices (Guet Group) 2019
- Rok Grah (Guet Group) 2018
- Sebastian Novak (Barton Group) 2017
- Zhigang Bao (Erdős Group) 2016
- Lenka Matejovicova (Barton Group) 2015
- Catherine Mckenzie (Janovjak Group) 2014
- Florian Pausinger (Edelsbrunner Group) 2014
- Florian Pausinger (Edelsbrunner Group) 2013
ISTA Alumni Award
- Matyáš Fendrych 2025
- Harold Paul de Vladar 2024
- Alexander Kolesnikov 2023
- Anton Mellit 2022
ISTA Postdoc Award
- Kirti Jain (Guet Group) 2025
- Shengduo Xu (Ibáñez Group) 2025
ISTA Sustainability Award
- Achille Pierre Jouberton & Thomas Shaw 2024
Outstanding Administrative Support
- May Chan (Postdoctoral and Faculty Affairs) 2025
- Susana Moreno Flores (Grant Office) 2025
- Eszter Nucz (Graduate School Office) 2025
- Niall O’Brien (Grant Office) 2025
- Birgit Oosthuizen-Noczil (Assistant to Professors) 2025
- Melanie Leisser (XISTA) 2024
- Eva Baghai (Office of the President) 2023
- Christine Francois-Rennhofer (Assistant to Professors) 2023
- Niall O’Brien (Grant Office) 2022
- Ulrike Seiss (Graduate School Office) 2022
- Yvonne Kundera-Fiegl (Controlling) 2021
- Susanne Wertheimer-Wiegel (Environment Health and Safety) 2020
- Verena Seiboth (Postdoctoral and Faculty Affairs) 2019
- Stephanie Danzinger (Assistant to Professors) 2018
- Rita Six (Assistant to Professors) 2017
- Arinya Eller (Events) 2016
- Marion Holl (Events) 2016
- Christina Philippi (Events) 2016
- Barbara Abraham (Grant Office) 2015
- Vlad Cozac (International Services) 2015
- Barbara Hartl (Grant Office) 2015
- Louise Jottrand (Grant Office) 2015
- Ana Rosa Almansa Martin (Grant Office) 2015
- Carla Mazuheli-Chibidziura (Grant Office) 2015
- Maria Oana Rosu (Grant Office) 2015
- Anna Schneidergruber (Grant Office) 2015
- Astrid Angel (Assistant to Professors) 2014
- Jerneja Beslagic (Assistant to Dean) 2014
- Elisabeth Hacker (Assistant to Professors) 2014
- Nicole Hotzy (Assistant to Professors) 2014
- Eva Kramberger (Assistant to Professors) 2014
- Alexandra Mally (Assistant to Professors) 2014
- Sigrid Pratsch (Assistant to Professors) 2014
- Agnieszka Stawicka (Assistant to Professors) 2014
Outstanding PhD Thesis
- Georg Arnold (Fink Group) 2025
- Huihuang Chen (Friml Group) 2025
- Elias Frantar (Alistarh Group) 2025
- Joscha Henheik (Erdős Group) 2025
- Volker Karle (Lemeshko Group) 2025
- Michal Hledik (Barton Group & Tkačik Group) 2024
- Marco Valentini (Katsaros Group) 2024
- Djordje Zikelic (Chatterjee Group) 2024
- Morris Brooks (Seiringer Group) 2023
- Rishabh Sahu (Fink Group) 2023
- Kathrin Tomasek (Sixt Group & Guet Group) 2022
- Amir Kafshdar Goharshady (Chatterjee Group) 2021
- Domen Kampjut (Sazanov Group) 2020
- Claudia Espinoza Martínez (Jonas Group) 2019
- Anton Nikitenko (Edelsbrunner Group) 2018
- Anastasia Pentina (Lampert Group) 2017
- Martin Chmelik (Chatterjee Group) 2016
Outstanding Scientific Achievement
- Mathias Lechner (Henzinger Thomas Group) 2023
- Djordje Zikelic (Chatterjee Group) 2023
- Marco Valentini (Katsaros Group) 2022
- Irene Vercellino (Sazanov Group) 2021
- Felipe Andrés Fredes Tolorza (Shigemoto Group) 2020
- Alfredo Rueda (Fink Group) 2019
- Shabir Barzanjeh (Fink Group) 2018
- Enderalp Yakaboylu (Lemeshko Group) 2017
- Karol Fiedorczuk (Sazanov Group) 2016
- James Letts (Sazanov Group) 2016
- Isaac Mabillard (Wagner Group) 2015
- Morten Bojsen-Hansen (Wojtan Group) 2014
- Maria Pia Postiglione (Hippenmeyer Group) 2014
- Ekaterina Papusheva (Imaging and Optics Facility) 2014
- Carmen Streicher (Hippenmeyer Group) 2014
Outstanding Scientific Support
- Victor-Valentin Hodirnau (Electron Microscopy Facility) 2025
- Petra Rovó (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility) 2025
- Fangfang Sun (Molecular Biology Service) 2025
- Margarita Valhondo Falcón (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility) 2025
- Simon Weißmann (Molecular Biology Service) 2025
- Farnaz Freeman (Novarino Group) 2024
- Julia Hilscher (Laboratory Support Facility) 2024
- Ariana Macon (Vicoso Group) 2023
- Katharina Bauer (Preclinical Facility) 2022
- Verena Mayer (Aquatics) 2021
- Alois Schlögl (Scientific Computing) 2020
- Maria del Mar López Pelegrín (Loose Group) 2019
- Dorota Jaworska (Plant Facility) 2018
- János Kiss (Scientific Computing) 2017
- Mark Farrington (Lab Support Facility) 2016
- Ludek Lovicar (Electron Microscopy Facility) 2015
- Todor Asenov (Machine Shop) 2014
* Former faculty members of ISTA
