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Cells, Data, Stars: New ERC Projects at ISTA
EU funding for recipients Lisa Bugnet, Alicia Michael, and Marco Mondelli
September 5, 2024
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A Very “Clean Room”
Take a glimpse into ISTA’s Nanofabrication Facility
September 4, 2024
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Star Lives and Afterlives
ISTA welcomes stellar evolution specialist Ilaria Caiazzo as an assistant professor
August 27, 2024
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Re-engineering Bacterial Defense Systems
New ISTA Assistant Professor Jack Bravo develops potent tools for genome engineering
August 20, 2024
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Align or Die
ISTA researchers uncover how ‘mortal filaments’ self-assemble and maintain order
August 12, 2024
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Research with NVIDIA Accelerated Computing
ISTA is investing in an NVIDIA GPU cluster for generative AI and machine learning
August 8, 2024
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Wind, Water, and an Ever-Changing Climate
Atmosphere, ocean, and climate researcher Caroline Muller promoted to professor
August 1, 2024
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Deep-Mapping the Night Sky for Hot Stars
UVEX: NASA’s new UV space telescope with an ISTA fingerprint to conquer space
July 11, 2024
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Obituary: Arnold Schmidt
ISTA mourns one of the Institute’s ‘founding fathers’
July 10, 2024
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Martin Hetzer joins EMBO
ISTA president honored for outstanding research
July 9, 2024
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ISTA Graduation 2024
Representing 20 countries on 5 continents, honoring exceptional PhDs and alumni
June 21, 2024
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2024 Wittgenstein Award for Jiří Friml
Cell biologist at ISTA receives Austria’s most highly endowed science prize
June 20, 2024
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A Railroad of Cells
Computer simulations explain cell movement
June 19, 2024
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“Can’t sleep, must run experiments”
2,000 young and older guests visit the ISTA Open Campus 2024
June 13, 2024
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Ursula von der Leyen at ISTA
President of the European Commission on campus in Klosterneuburg
June 7, 2024
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Tom Henzinger Elected to Royal Society
ISTA professor and founding president is new member of UK body
June 6, 2024
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US National Academy Elects Nick Barton
ISTA professor and evolutionary biologist joins US National Academy of Sciences
June 4, 2024
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The Embryo Assembles Itself
New mathematical framework sheds light on how cells communicate to form embryo
June 3, 2024
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Nurturing Curiosity From the Start
Ground-breaking new kindergarten and press conference “Masterplan 2036”
May 22, 2024
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Beneath the Surface
To grow their roots, plants feel gravity — ISTA scientists take a close look
May 16, 2024
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Exploring Uncharted Territories
ISTA awards NOMIS-ISTA Fellowship
May 15, 2024
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Bilateral AI – New FWF Cluster of Excellence
Four research groups from ISTA involved
May 6, 2024
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Biological Timekeeping
New assistant professor at ISTA investigates how cells keep track of time
May 2, 2024
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The Glacier Researcher
C/O Vienna Magazine interview with ISTA Professor Francesca Pellicciotti
April 29, 2024
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ISTA Physicists Admitted to Young Academy
With Kimberly Modic and Hryhoriy Polshyn, ISTA counts seven members in ÖAW body
April 23, 2024
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New Leadership Team
ISTA welcomes three new Vice Presidents to strengthen institute management
April 9, 2024
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The (Un)Reachable States of Matter
New assistant professor at ISTA bridges ultrafast physics and quantum mechanics
April 9, 2024
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Nerve Cells “Old at Heart”
New research shows: key molecules within nerve cells persist throughout life
April 5, 2024
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How Plants Heal Wounds
Pressure changes and mechanical forces trigger wound healing in plants
April 4, 2024
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Million Euro Boost for Neuro Start-up
ISTA researchers secure venture capital for new MedTech company Syntropic Medical
April 4, 2024
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World Record: Tiniest Egg Ever
ISTA researchers create smallest egg in history – and lose it
April 1, 2024
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The Protein Factory
New assistant professor at ISTA assembles 3D nano-molecules
March 27, 2024
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A Resident Journalist’s Soliloquy
German science journalist Sigrid März is the 2024 ISTA Journalist in Residence
March 21, 2024
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Two Artists, Two Portraits
ISTA Welcomes Artists in Residence Julia Carrillo and Maximilian Prüfer in April
March 21, 2024
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Walking on Rolling Stones
Exhibition at first Klima Biennale Wien
March 20, 2024
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Two Emerging Fields Teams with ISTA
Florian Schur and Gaia Novarino receive FWF funding for pioneering research
March 12, 2024
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Leonid Sazanov Wins Schrödinger Award
Sixth ISTA scientist to receive this highest award by the Austrian Academy of Sciences
March 11, 2024
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Baby Quasars
ISTA: James Webb Space Telescope spots little giants in the deep past
March 7, 2024
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What Math Tells Us about Social Dilemmas
Scientists at ISTA present a new mathematic model for cooperation
February 26, 2024
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Cloud Clustering Causes More Extreme Rain
New climate model shows more extreme rainfall in the tropics with increased temperatures
February 23, 2024
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Neuronal Insights: Flash and Freeze-Fracture
Analyzing brain region using light flashes, high-pressure freezing and fracturing
February 15, 2024
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Artificial Intelligence as a Tool in Science
ISTA researchers welcome AI use in science, but remain cautious
February 13, 2024
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Down to the Core of Poxviruses
ISTA researchers uncover the architecture of poxvirus cores
February 5, 2024
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Finding Your Way in Research
Grow as a researcher with ISTA’s summer program
February 1, 2024
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The Explainers
Christian Bertsch and Mia Meus interview by C/O Vienna Magazine
January 22, 2024
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2+1 ERC Grants for ISTA
Two ERC Proof of Concept Grants and one ERC Consolidator Grant
January 18, 2024
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Anđela Šarić Promoted to Professor
A fast-track path to tenure at ISTA for research on simulating living matter
January 12, 2024
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Synapses Brought to the Point
Scientists unravel structure and function of important inhibitory synapses in the cerebellum
January 11, 2024
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Stranger than Friction: A Force Initiating Life
Scientists examine how friction forces propel development in a marine organism
January 9, 2024

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Sep 19, 2024
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From Algorithms to Startups: A Journey of Innovation and Entrepreneurship From Algorithms to Startups: A Journey of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
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Sep 18, 2024
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Sep 19, 2024
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Sep 23, 2024
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Catherine Dulac, Harvard University
Sep 30, 2024
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Entanglement enabled probes of open quantum systems Entanglement enabled probes of open quantum systems
Kater Murch, Washington University in St. Louis (USA)
Oct 1, 2024
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On Selmer groups of cyclic twist families of elliptic curves over global function fields On Selmer groups of cyclic twist families of elliptic curves over global function fields
Sun Woo Park, MPIM
Oct 10, 2024
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Institute Colloquium: Daniel Bonn, Univeristy of Amsterdam Institute Colloquium: Daniel Bonn, Univeristy of Amsterdam
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Oct 21, 2024
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Oct 28, 2024
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Nov 4, 2024
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Nov 6, 2024
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Nov 11, 2024
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Institute Colloquium: Jan Peters, TU Darmstadt (Institute for Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS)) Institute Colloquium: Jan Peters, TU Darmstadt (Institute for Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS))
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Dec 2, 2024
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Institute Colloquium: Karolin Luger, University of Colorado Boulder Institute Colloquium: Karolin Luger, University of Colorado Boulder
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Feb 3, 2025
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Feb 10, 2025
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CELLULAR NEUROSCIENCE

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Krzysztof Pietrzak

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Xiaoqi Feng

REPRODUCTIVE GENETICS AND EPIGENETICS

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Maksym Serbyn

QUANTUM DYNAMICS AND CONDENSED MATTER THEORY

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Christopher Wojtan

COMPUTER GRAPHICS AND PHYSICS SIMULATION

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Calin Guet

SYSTEMS AND SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY OF GENETIC NETWORKS

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Carrie Bernecky

RNA-BASED GENE REGULATION

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Jiří Friml

DEVELOPMENTAL AND CELL BIOLOGY OF PLANTS

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Recent Publications

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Rational singularities for moment maps of totally negative quivers

Tanguy Vernet

Transformation Groups 2024

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Anti-plasmid immunity: A key to pathogen success?

Jack Peter Kelly Bravo

Future Microbiology 2024

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Wildfires impact on PM2.5 concentration in galicia Spain

César Quishpe-Vásquez, Patricia Oliva, Ellie Anne López-Barrera, Alejandro Casallas Garcia

Journal of Environmental Management 2024

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Many-body entropies and entanglement from polynomially many local measurements

Benoît Vermersch, Marko Ljubotina, J. Ignacio Cirac, Peter Zoller, Maksym Serbyn, Lorenzo Piroli

Physical Review X 2024

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The Fröhlich polaron at strong coupling: Part II — Energy-momentum relation and effective mass

Morris Brooks, Robert Seiringer

Publications Mathematiques de l’Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques 2024

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Unveiling the mechanism of phonon-polariton damping in α‑MoO3

Javier Taboada-Gutiérrez, Yixi Zhou, Ana I.F. Tresguerres-Mata, Christian Lanza, Abel Martínez-Suárez, Gonzalo Álvarez-Pérez, Jiahua Duan, José Ignacio Martín, María Vélez, Ivan Prieto Gonzalez, Adrien Bercher, Jérémie Teyssier, Ion Errea, Alexey Y. Nikitin, Javier Martín-Sánchez, Alexey B. Kuzmenko, Pablo Alonso-González

ACS Photonics 2024

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No extraordinary χ(3) in lead-halide perovskites: Placing an upper bound on Kerr nonlinearity by means of time-resolved interferometry

Dusan Lorenc, Ayan Zhumekenov, Osman M. Bakr, Zhanybek Alpichshev

Physical Review Materials 2024

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Bolometric detection of Josephson radiation

Bayan Karimi, Gorm Ole Steffensen, Andrew P Higginbotham, Charles M. Marcus, Alfredo Levy Yeyati, Jukka P. Pekola

Nature Nanotechnology 2024

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