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ISTA Secures New ERC Advanced Grant
Prestigious 2.8-million Euro prize will fund SPINSWAP superconductivity project
June 23, 2026
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The “Gate” for Bulky Cargo
ISTA scientists reveal new details of how large proteins cross cell membranes
June 22, 2026
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Celebrating 52 Graduates
In a class spanning 25 countries, five exceptional PhDs are honored with awards
June 22, 2026
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Patterns in Genetic Chaos
Autism-related genes share a common path during early brain development
June 17, 2026
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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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SCIENCE STORY
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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Jun 25, 2026
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Jun 29, 2026
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Jun 30, 2026
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Sep 22, 2026
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EVOLUTION, DEVELOPMENT, AND FUNCTION OF MOTOR CIRCUITS

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STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY OF MEMBRANE PROTEIN COMPLEXES

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JOURNAL ARTICLE

The effect of the fitness gradient on fixation probability

Jakub Svoboda, Hossein Nemati, Josef Tkadlec, Kamran Kaveh, Krishnendu Chatterjee

Nature Communications 2026

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Physics-inspired procedural texturing of extremely deformable surfaces

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

ACM Transactions on Graphics 2026

CONFERENCE

Circles of confidence for multi-label geometry completion

Ziyu Wei, Christian Hafner, Aleksei Kalinov, Peter Synak, Christopher J Wojtan

Eurographics: Symposium on Geometry Processing 2026

SOFTWARE

Quadrix

Yossi Bleile, Emanuele Cortinovis

2026

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Aromatic ring flips reveal reshaping of protein dynamics in crystals and complexes

Lea Marie Becker, Haohao Fu, Benjamin Tatman, Matthias Dreydoppel, Anna Kapitonova, Daniel Balazs, Ulrich Weininger, Sylvain Engilberge, Christophe Chipot, Paul Schanda

Nature Chemistry 2026

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NAD to the bone: How bacteria put phages under aRES-t … and how phages fight back

Daniel Williams-Jones, Jack Peter Kelly Bravo

Cell Host & Microbe 2026

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A path to constraints on common envelope ejection in massive binaries: Full evolutionary reconstruction of three Black Hole X-ray binaries

Zhenwei Li, Dandan Wei, Shi Jia, Hailiang Chen, Hongwei Ge, Zhuo Chen, Yangyang Zhang, Xuefei Chen, Zhanwen Han

The Astrophysical Journal 2026

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Little Red Dots as globular clusters in formation

John Chisholm, Danielle A. Berg, Michael Boylan-Kolchin, Anna De Graaff, Lukas J. Furtak, Vasily Kokorev, Jorryt J Matthee, Julian B. Muñoz, Rohan P. Naidu, Andreas A.C. Sander

The Astrophysical Journal Letters 2026

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