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Imaging & Optics Facility

The Imaging & Optics Facility (IOF) is one of nine Scientific Service Units (SSU) that supports scientists at Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA). The Imaging & Optics facility provides an state-of-the-art infrastructure for advanced (optical) imaging applications. The Imaging and Optics infrastructure (582.3 m2) is distributed over the ISTA campus, and sub-divided in 3 main service hubs across ISTA campus:

  1. Central Building & Bertalanffy Foundation building (01/04 – 278.5 m2)
  2. Lab Building East (06 – 79.3 m2)
  3. Sunstone Building / Moonstone Building (23/24 – 224.5 m2)

Our state-of-the-art machine park consists of high-end microscope equipment, flow cytometry devices and diverse image analysis that allow scientists across disciplines (e.g. Chemistry, Material Science, Physics and Life Science) to utilize equipment that is at the forefront of the current available technologies to perform their research.

Our elaborate specificized machine park facilitates an extensive array of technologies to facilitate a wide variety of advanced applications and services. All available system specifications, technologies and applications can be explored on our Equipment & Technology page.

The Imaging & Optics Facility further provides trainings, courses, instrument demonstrations, workshops and is involved in outreach events (IOF events page).

For further facility details, please visit the Imaging & Optics Facility web page: iof.pages.ist.ac.at


On this site:


Services

The Imaging and Optics Facility is responsible for maintaining its machine park in a ‘’state of the art’ performance condition. This is done by routinely performing quality control monitoring, system troubleshooting and organizing repairs. Equipment purchases are done to ensure timely replacement, capacity maintenance and new technology implementation.

The Imaging & Optics Facility team provides the following services:

Service formats:

  • User Training: basic and advanced application support for using the equipment, as well as project consulting.
  • Assisted Sessions: single sessions with IOF staff support for specific applications or modalities
  • Projects: collaborative support from IOF to establish assays, (automated) workflows or image analysis routines

To use our services, the following steps are needed: 

  • To use our services, the following steps are needed: Internal users and short term visitors: please follow instructions described here: Getting Started page. External customers need to establish a cooperation contract with ISTA before services from the Imaging & Optics Facility at ISTA can be used. Please contact us in case of interest.
  • An ‘introduction to the facility’ as well as ‘equipment training’ are obligatory prior to first use of any facility equipment. Trainings are exclusively carried out by the Imaging and Optics Facility staff.
  • Detailed guidelines can be found here

Equipment

Imaging & Optics Facility Machine park:


Teaching and Outreach

The Imaging & Optics Facility is involved in different teaching and outreach events:

  • Annual (Graduate School) Microscopy course
  • Introduction to Newcomers to the Imaging & Optics Facility (mandatory)
  • Open Campus Day
  • Technological Workshops and Seminars
  • Equipment demonstrations

Staff

Image of Tereza Belinova

Tereza Belinova

Image Analysis

+43 2243 9000 2151

Image of Yann Cesbron

Yann Cesbron

Advanced Microscopy

+43 2243 9000 2151

Image of Marco Dalla Vecchia

Marco Dalla Vecchia

Image Analysis


Image of Nasser Darwish-Miranda

Nasser Darwish-Miranda

Advanced Microscopy

Image of Mohammad Goudarzi

Mohammad Goudarzi

Advanced Microscopy

+43 2243 9000 2151

Image of Robert Hauschild

Senior Staff Scientist

+43 2243 9000 1047


Image of Elias Jantsch

Elias Jantsch

Intern

Image of Gabriel Krens

Gabriel Krens

Manager of Imaging and Optics Facility

+43 2243 9000 1700

Image of Doreen Milius

Doreen Milius

Advanced Microscopy

+43 2243 9000 1061


Image of Maria Serracanta Fernandez

Maria Serracanta Fernandez

Microscopy Quality Control/student empl.

Image of Martin Solis Gutierrez

Martin Solis Gutierrez

Digital Infrastr. Support/student empl.

Image of Christoph Sommer

Christoph Sommer

Staff Scientist


Contact

Institute of Science and Technology Austria
c/o Imaging & Optics Facility
Am Campus 1, A-3400 Klosterneuburg, Austria

Office: Bertalanffy Foundation building, ground floor

Scientific Head of Imaging & Optics Facility:
Anna Kicheva

Contact for general facility questions:
iof@ist.ac.at

Contact Manager:





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