Institutes

Institutes.

Progress is made when those who have a common interest work on something.

The JKU has space for this common interest. With over 120 different institutes, the university supports research and teaching on a wide range of subject areas.

Interested in which areas exactly? Learn more here:

Faculty of Engineering & Natural Sciences

Chemistry and Polymer Engineering Technologies

Institute of Analytical Chemistry
Institute of Inorganic Chemistry - Center of Nanobionics and Photochemical Sciences (CNPS)
Institute of Polymer Chemistry
Institute of Chemical Technology of Inorganic Materials
Institute of Chemical Technology of Organic Materials
Institute of Catalysis
Institute of Organic Chemistry
Institute of Physical Chemistry
Institute of Polymer Extrusion and Compounding
Institute of Polymer Injection Moulding and Process Automation
Institute of Polymeric Materials and Testing
Institute of Polymer Product Engineering
Institute of Polymer Sciences
Institute of Process Engineering
Linz Institute of Organic Solar Cells (LIOS)

Computer Science

Institute of Application-Oriented Knowledge Processing
Institute for Machine Learning
Institute of Computational Perception
Institute of Computer Architecture
- Department of Applied Systems Research and Statistics
Institute of Computer Graphics
Institute of Formal Models and Verification
Institute of Integrated Circuits
- Department of Integrated Circuits and System Design
- Department of Energy-Efficient Analog Circuits
- Department of Medical Electronics
Institute of Networks and Security
Institute for Pervasive Computing
Institute of Signal Processing
Institute for Software Systems Engineering
Institute for Systems Software
Institute for Telecooperation
- Department of Cooperative Information Systems

Mathematics

Institute of Algebra
Institute of Analysis
- Department of Functional Analysis
- Department of Dynamic Systems and Approximation Theory
Institute of Applied Geometry
Institute of Financial Mathematics and Applied Number Theory
Institute of Industrial Mathematics
Institute of Computational Mathematics
Institute of Stochastics
Institute for Symbolic Computation (RISC)
Institute for Knowledge-Based Mathematical Systems (FLLL - Fuzzy Logic Laboratorium Linz-Hagenberg)
Doctorate Program (DK) Computational Mathematics

Mechatronics

Institute of Design and Control of Mechatronical Systems
Institute of Electronical Drives and Power Electronics
Institute of Electrical Measurement Technology
Institute of Structural Lightweight Design
Institute of Machine Design and Hydraulic Drives
Institute of Mechatronic Design and Production
Institute of Biomedical Mechatronics
Institute of Microelectronics and Microsensors
Institute Communications Engineering and RF-Systems
- Department of Communications Engineering
- Department of RF-Systems
Institute of Automatic Control and Control Systems Technology
Institute of Robotics
Institute of Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer
- Department of Particulate Flow Modelling
Institute of Technical Mechanics
JKU HOERBIGER Research Institute for Smart Actuators

Physics

Institute of Applied Physics
Institute for Biophysics
- Department of Applied Experimental Biophysics
- Department of Molecular and Membrane Biophysics
Institute for Experimental Physics
- Department of Atom and Surface Physics
- Department of Soft Matter Physics
Institute of Semiconductor and Solid State Physics
- Department of Solid State Physics
- Department of Semiconductor Physics
- Abteilung für Nanoelektronik
Institute of Theoretical Physics
- Department of Theoretical Biophysics
- Department of Many Particle Systems
Center of Surface and Nanoanalytics (ZONA)

Faculty of Social Science, Economics & Business

Business and Business Informatics

Institute of Corporate Finance
- Department of Asset Management
- Department of Corporate Finance
Institute of Tax Management
Institute of Operational and Regional Environmental Management
Institute of Public and Non-Profit Management
Institute of Management Accounting
Institute of Controlling and Consulting
Institute of Retailing, Sales and Marketing
- Department of Marketing for Emerging Markets
- Department of Business-to-Business Marketing
Institute of Productions and Logistics Management
Institute for Strategic Management
Institute of Organization Science
Institute of Human Resource and Change Management
Institute of International Management
- Department of International Business
- Department of Cross-Cultural Management
Institute of Entrepreneurship and Organizational Development
Institute of Financial Accounting and Auditing
Institute of Innovation Management
Institute of Digital Business
- Department of Digital Business Management
- Department of Digital Education
Institute of Business Informatics - Communications Engineering
Institute of Business Informatics - Data & Knowledge Engineering
Institute of Business Informatics - Information Engineering
Institute of Business Informatics - Software Engineering

Economics and Applied Statistics

Institute of Applied Statistics
- Department of Data Analysis and Econometrics
- Department of Data Acquisition and Data Quality
Institute of Economics
- Department of General Economic History
- Department of Finance
- Department of Economic Theory and Quantitative Economic Research
- Department of Job Market/Labor Economics
- Department of Economic Policy
- Department of Industrial Economics
- Department of Health Economics

Social Sciences and Humanities

Institute of Politics and Social Policy
Institute of Modern and Contemporary History
Institute of Philosophy and Theory of Science
Institute of Social and Economic History
Institute of Sociology
- Department of Empirical Social Research
- Department of Political and Development Research
- Department of Social Theory and Social Analyses
- Department of Economic and Organizational Sociology

Education and Psychology

Institute of Education and Psychology
- Department of Social Psychology, Human Resource Development, and Adult Education
- Department of Business and Vocational Education
- Department of Business Psychology
- Department for Work, Organizational and Media Psychology

Externally Funded Institutes

Center of Health Care Research
Competence Center for Knowledge Management
Institute of Cultural Industry and Cultural Research
Research Institute for Banking and Finance
Research Institute for Strategic Managerial Analysis of the Economy
Research Institute for Tax Law and Tax Management

Faculty of Law

Civil Law

Institute of Multi-Media Legal Studies in Linz
- Department of Multi-Media Civil Law
Institute of Roman Law
- Department of Civil Propaedeutics
Institute for Civil Law
- Department of General Civil Law Dogmatics
- Department of the History of Dogma
- Department of Base-Knowledge Research
- Department of Environmental Private Law
- Department of Business Private Law
- Department of European Private and Insurance Law
- Department of Financial Market Law

Public Law

Institute of Multi-Media Public Law
Institute of Constitutional Law and Political Science
- Department of Constitutional and Federal Finance Law
- Department of Public Procedural Law und Protection of Fundamental Rights
- Department of Public Business Law
- Department of Political Science, Legal Ethics and Philosophy
Institute of University Law
Institute of Administrative Law and Administrative Education
- Department of Legal Protection and Administrative Control
- Department of Environmental Management and Industrial Plant Regulation
- Department of Administration Education and Administration Management
- Department of Technology Law

Business Law

Institute of Labor Law and Social Security
Institute for the Rights of Basic Social Care and Healthcare Law
Institute of European Law
Institute of Business Law
Institute of Corporate Finance Law, Tax Law and Fiscal Policy
Institute of Public International Law, Air Law, and International Relations
Institute of Civil Procedure, Bankruptcy Law, and Comparative Civil Procedure
Research Institute of Tax Law and Tax Management

Interdisciplinary Law Studies

Institute of Canon and Religious Law and European Legal History
Institute for Legal Gender Studies
Institute of Penology
- Department of Base Knowledge in Penology and Business Criminal Law
- Department for the Implementation of Penology and Medical Criminal Law
- Department of Substantive Criminal Law and Victimology
- Department of Corporate Criminal Law and Criminal Law Practice
Environmental Law Institute
- Department of Environmental Base Knowledge Research
- Department of General Environmental Law Dogmatics and Environmental Technology Law
Institute of European and Austrian Civil Procedural Law

Faculty of Medicine

at the Kepler University Hospital

Linz Institute of Technology

Research Labs

Artificial Intelligence
Cyber-Physical Systems
Digital Transformation and Law
Medical Engineering
IT Security

Linz School of Education

Departments

Department of Educational Research
Department of Didactics for Mathematics, Computer Science, and Engineering (STEM)

Interdisciplinary Institutes & Centers