- Institute of Analytical Chemistry (German only)
- Institute of Catalysis (German only)
- Institute of Chemical Technology of Inorganic Materials
- Institute of Chemical Technology of Organic Materials
- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry - Center of Nanobionics and Photochemical Sciences (CNPS)
- Institute of Organic Chemistry
- Institute of Physical Chemistry
- Institute of Polymer Chemistry (German only)
- Institute of Polymer Extrusion and Compounding (German only)
- Institute of Polymeric Materials and Testing
- Institute of Polymer Injection Moulding and Process Automation (German only)
- Institute of Polymer Product Engineering (German only)
- Institute of Polymer Sciences
- Institute of Process Engineering (German only)
- Linz Institute of Organic Solar Cells (LIOS)
Advancements are 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
Computer Science
- Institute for Machine Learning
- Institute for Pervasive Computing
- Institute for Software Systems Engineering
- Institute for Systems Software (German only)
- Institute for Telecooperation (German only)
- Department of Cooperative Information Systems
- Institute of Application-Oriented Knowledge Processing
- Institute of Computational Perception
- Institute of Computer Architecture (German only)
- Department of Applied Systems Research and Statistics
- Institute of Computer Graphics
- Institute of Formal Models and Verification
- Institute of Integrated Circuits (German only)
- Department of Energy-Efficient Analog Circuits
- Department of Integrated Circuits and System Design
- Department of Medical Electronics
- Institute of Networks and Security
- Institute of Signal Processing
Mathematics
- Doctorate Program (DK) Computational Mathematics
- Institute for Knowledge-Based Mathematical Systems (FLLL - Fuzzy Logic Laboratorium Linz-Hagenberg)
- Institute for Symbolic Computation (RISC)
- Institute of Algebra
- Institute of Analysis
- Department of Dynamic Systems and Approximation Theory
- Department of Functional Analysis
- Institute of Applied Geometry
- Institute of Computational Mathematics
- Institute of Financial Mathematics and Applied Number Theory
- Institute of Industrial Mathematics
- Institute of Stochastics
Mechatronics
- Institute Communications Engineering and RF-Systems
- Department of Communications Engineering
- Department of RF-Systems
- Institute of Automatic Control and Control Systems Technology
- Institute of Biomedical Mechatronics
- Institute of Design and Control of Mechatronical Systems (German only)
- Institute of Measurement Technology
- Institute of Electronical Drives and Power Electronics
- Institute of Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer (German only)
- Department of Particulate Flow Modelling
- Institute of Machine Design and Hydraulic Drives
- Institute of Mechatronic Design and Production
- Institute of Microelectronics and Microsensors (German only)
- Institute of Robotics
- Institute of Structural Lightweight Design
- Institute of Technical Mechanics
- JKU HOERBIGER Research Institute for Smart Actuators
Physics
- Center of Surface and Nanoanalytics (ZONA) (German only)
- Institute for Biophysics (only available in German)
- Department of Applied Experimental Biophysics
- Department of Molecular and Membrane Biophysics
- Institute for Experimental Physics
- Institute of Applied Physics
- Institute of Semiconductor and Solid State Physics
- Department of Nanoelektronics
- Department of Semiconductor Physics
- Department of Solid State Physics
- Institute of Theoretical Physics
- Department of Many Particle Systems
- Department of Theoretical Biophysics
Faculty of Social Science, Economics & Business
Business and Business Informatics
- Institute for Strategic Management (German only)
- Institute of Business Informatics - Communications Engineering
- Institute of Business Informatics - Data & Knowledge Engineering (German only)
- Institute of Business Informatics - Information Engineering (German only)
- Institute of Business Informatics - Software Engineering (German only)
- Institute of Controlling and Consulting (German only)
- Institute of Corporate Finance (German only)
- Department of Asset Management
- Department of Corporate Finance
- Institute of Digital Business
- Department of Digital Business Management
- Department of Digital Education
- Institute of Entrepreneurship and Organizational Development (German only)
- Institute of Financial Accounting and Auditing (German only)
- Institute of Human Resource and Change Management
- Institute of Innovation Management
- Institute of International Management
- Department of Cross-Cultural Management
- Department of International Business
- Institute of Management Accounting (German only)
- Institute of Operational and Regional Environmental Management (German only)
- Institute of Organization Science (German only)
- Institute of Productions and Logistics Management
- Institute of Public and Non-Profit Management (German only)
- Institute of Retailing, Sales and Marketing (German only)
- Department of Business-to-Business Marketing
- Department of Marketing for Emerging Markets
- Institute of Tax Management (German only)
Economics and Applied Statistics
- Institute of Applied Statistics
- Department of Data Acquisition and Data Quality
- Department of Data Analysis and Econometrics
- Institute of Economics
- Department of Economic Policy
- Department of Economic Theory and Quantitative Economic Research
- Department of Finance
- Department of General Economic History
- Department of Health Economics
- Department of Industrial Economics
- Department of Job Market/Labor Economics
Social Sciences and Humanities
- Institute of Modern and Contemporary History (German only)
- Institute of Philosophy and Theory of Science
- Institute of Politics and Social Policy (German only)
- Institute of Social and Economic History (German only)
- Institute of Sociology (German only)
- Department of Economic and Organizational Sociology
- Department of Empirical Social Research
- Department of Political and Development Research
- Department for the Theory of Society and Social Analyses
Education and Psychology
- Institute of Education and Psychology
- Department for Work, Organizational and Media Psychology
- Department of Business and Vocational Education
- Department of Business Psychology
- Department of Social Psychology, Human Resource Development, and Adult Education
Externally Funded Institutes
- Center of Health Care Research (German only)
- Competence Center for Knowledge Management (German only)
- Institute of Cultural Industry and Cultural Research (German only)
- Research Institute for Banking and Finance (German only)
- Research Institute for Strategic Managerial Analysis of the Economy
Faculty of Law
Civil Law
- Institute for Civil Law (German only)
- Department of Base-Knowledge Research
- Department of Business Private Law
- Department of Environmental Private Law
- Department of European Private and Insurance Law
- Department of Financial Market Law
- Department of General Civil Law Dogmatics
- Department of the History of Dogma
- Institute of Multi-Media Legal Studies in Linz (German only)
- Department of Multi-Media Civil Law
- Institute of Roman Law
- Department of Civil Propaedeutics
Public Law
- Institute of Administrative Law and Administrative Education (only available in German)
- Department of Administration Education and Administration Management
- Department of Environmental Management and Industrial Plant Regulation
- Department of Legal Protection and Administrative Control
- Department of Technology Law
- Institute of Constitutional Law and Political Science (only available in German)
- Department of Constitutional and Federal Finance Law
- Department of Political Science, Legal Ethics and Philosophy
- Department of Public Business Law
- Department of Public Procedural Law und Protection of Fundamental Rights
- Institute of Multi-Media Public Law (only available in German)
- Institute of University Law (only available in German)
Business Law
- Institute for the Rights of Basic Social Care and Healthcare Law (German only)
- Institute of Business Law (only available in German)
- Institute of Civil Procedure, Bankruptcy Law, and Comparative Civil Procedure (German only)
- Institute of Corporate Finance Law, Tax Law and Fiscal Policy (German only)
- Institute of European Law (German only)
- Institute of Labor Law and Social Security (German only)
- Institute of Public International Law, Air Law, and International Relations
- Research Institute of Tax Law and Tax Management (German only)
Interdisciplinary Law Studies
- Environmental Law Institute
- Department of Environmental Base Knowledge Research
- Department of General Environmental Law Dogmatics and Environmental Technology Law
- Institute for Legal Gender Studies (only available in German)
- Institute of Canon and Religious Law and European Legal History (German only)
- Institute of European and Austrian Civil Procedural Law (German only)
- Institute of Penology (German only)
- Department for the Implementation of Penology and Medical Criminal Law
- Department of Base Knowledge in Penology and Business Criminal Law
- Department of Corporate Criminal Law and Criminal Law Practice
- Department of Substantive Criminal Law and Victimology
Faculty of Medicine
Linz Institute of Technology
Research Labs
- Artificial Intelligence
- Cyber-Physical Systems
- Digital Transformation and Law
- IT Security
- Medical Engineering
Linz School of Education
Interdisciplinary Institutes and Centers
Institutes
- Research Institute for Medical Diagnostics and Equipment Technology
- Institute for Legal Gender Studies (German only)
- Institute for Integrated Quality Design
- Institute Integrated Studies (German only)
Centers
- Centre for Business Language and Intercultural Communication (German only)
- Centre for Criminology (German only)