1. IST Austria: Institute of Science and Technology
Gerald Murauer November 18, 2011

2. The Eight Principles behind IST Austria
(Harari, Kuebler, Markl) 2

3. Starting From Scratch: Trying to Build the Best of All Worlds3

4. International Scientific Careers

5. The Spirit of IST Austria
International Institution: Science, scientific support, Kindergarten, schools, etc.
Objectives:
1. Performing world-class research Training world-class scientists.
Scientific excellence and promise as only hiring criterion:
No predefined professorial slots or research topics Centralized admission of PhD students.
No internal hierarchies and boundaries:
No departments; single, multi-disciplinary PhD program Few scientific support staff: professors supervising students Sharing of space and other resources.

6. A New Institution
IST created by Austrian law
Campus opening (June)
1st lab building (Oct)
2nd lab building
Professors arriving
50 employees in July 2010
200 employees by the end of 2011

7. 2011 Research Portfolio 4 research areas seeded: 20 research groups
Evol Bio
Comp Sci
Cell Bio
Neuro
Sci
4 research areas seeded: 20 research groups

8. Research Portfolio
2011
2016
-person before area quality before speed
Evol Bio
Cell Bio
Evol Bio
Comp Sci
Comp Sci
Physics
Cell Bio
Neuro
Sci
Neuro Sci
6-8 profs
Math
4 research areas seeded: 20 research groups
6-8 interacting research areas: research groups

9. IST Austria – Research Clusters
Mathematical and Evolutionary Biology
Computerscience
Cell Biology - Biophysics
Neuroscience

10. Mathematical and Evolutionary Biology
Nick Barton
Jon Bollback
Sylvia Cremer
Caroline
Uhler

11. Cell Biology - Biophysics
Tobias Bollenbach
Calin Guet
Carl-Philipp Heisenberg
Harald Janovjak
Daria Siekhaus
Michael Sixt
start: 2012

12. Neuroscience Ryuichi Shigemoto Simon Hippenmeyer Jozsef Csicsvari
start:2013
Simon Hippenmeyer
start: 2012
Jozsef Csicsvari
Peter Jonas
Gasper Tkacik

13. Computer Science Krish Chatterjee Herbert Edelsbrunner Tom Henzinger
Christoph Lampert
Chris Wojtan
Krzysztof Pietrzak
Vladimir Kolmogorov

14. Scientific Service Units
Ekaterina
Papusheva
Bioimaging
Patrick
Danowski
E-Library
Franz Schäfer
Computing & IT
Matthias Nowak
Life Science
Facilities
Stefan Hipfinger
Machine Shops
Michael Schunn
Pre-Clinical Facility

15. IST Scientists from 31 Nations*
* per September 2011

16. fulltime equivalent (November 1, 2011)
IST Employees 2011
fulltime equivalent (November 1, 2011)
Scientists
96.5
Professors 19
Postdocs
36,5
PhD Students 35
Student intern 5
Staff Scientists 1
Scientific Support
36,75
Administration
35 (+4 apprentices)
TOTAL
172,25

17. IST Austria Graduate School
Biology, Computer Science, Neuroscience and interdisciplinary areas
Application Deadline: January 15, 2012
Bachelor's or Master's degree required
Program language: English
Internationally competitive PhD salaries
Campus Visit Day: November 26, 2011

18. IST Austria Graduate School
First, unaffiliated phase:
Courses; lab rotations; qualifying exam year for MS students; 1-2 years for BS students.
Second, affiliated phase:
Research; annual progress reviews; PhD thesis years.
IST is committed to support scientific careers: Independence of students from projects Thesis committee formed early to accompany student
Our students’ success will be our success!

19. The Budget 2007-2016 Public Funding
290 million from Federal Government, thereof 195 million guaranteed
(95 million from Federal Government conditioned on third-party funds)
140 million from Lower Austria for construction
Science Funding (ERC, FWF, HFSP): until 2011 about 20 million Euro
ERC Advanced Grants for Nick Barton, Tom Henzinger, Peter Jonas
ERC Starting Grants for Sylvia Cremer, Krzysztof Pietrzak, Krishnendu
Chatterjee, Jozsef Csicsvari, Michael Sixt
Donations: currently 17 million Euro
Bertalanffy Foundation: 10 million
Voestalpine, Raiffeisen: 2 million each
OMV, Mondi: 1 million each
Long-term: licensing of Intellectual Property 19

20. Research Grants * FUNDING AGENCY AMOUNT GRANTED
ERC European Research Council €
FWF Austrian Science Fund €
DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft €
EC Framework Program 7 €
NSF National Science Foundation €
HFSP Human Frontier Science Program €
Others €
TOTAL €
*Oct. 2011

21. IST Austria Donors Mondi Seminar Center Bertalanffy Foundation
Laboratory Building
voestalpine Administration
Building
Raiffeisen Lecture Hall 21

22. The Campus in 2016/2017