Institutes.

Advancements are made when those who have a common interest work on something together.

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

Institute of Analytical and General Chemistry, opens in new window
- Department of Analytical Chemistry
- Department of General Chemistry
Institute of Biochemistry
Institute of Catalysis, opens in new window
Institute of Chemical Technology of Inorganic Materials, opens in new window
Institute of Chemical Technology of Organic Materials
Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, opens in new window
Institute of Organic Chemistry, opens in new window
Institute of Physical Chemistry, opens in new window
Institute of Polymer Chemistry, opens in new window
Institute of Polymer Processing and Digital Transformation (German only)
Institute of Polymeric Materials and Testing, opens in new window
Institute of Polymer Injection Moulding and Process Automation , opens in new window (German only)
Institute of Polymer Product Engineering, opens in new window (German only)
Institute of Polymer Sciences, opens in new window
Institute of Process Engineering, opens in new window
Linz Institute for Organic Solar Cells (LIOS), opens in new window

Institute for Machine Learning, opens in new window
Institute for Pervasive Computing, opens in new window
Institute for Software Systems Engineering, opens in new window
Institute for Systems Software (German only)
Institute for Telecooperation, opens in new window
- Department of Cooperative Information Systems
Institute for Application-oriented Knowledge Processing, opens in new window
Institute of Computational Perception, opens in new window
Institute of Complex Systems, opens in new window (German only)
- Department of Applied Systems Research and Statistics
Institute of Computer Graphics, opens in new window
Institute of Formal Models and Verification, opens in new window
Institute of Integrated Circuits, opens in new window (German only)
- Department of Energy-Efficient Analog Circuits
- Department of Integrated Circuits and System Design
- Department of Medical Electronics
Institute of Networks and Security, opens in new window
Institute of Signal Processing, opens in new window
Institute of Symbolic Artificial Intelligence

Institute Communications Engineering and RF-Systems, opens in new window
- Department of Communications Engineering
- Department of RF-Systems
Institute of Automatic Control and Control Systems Technology, opens in new window
Institute of Biomedical Mechatronics, opens in new window
Institute of Design and Control of Mechatronical Systems , opens in new window (German only)
Institute of Measurement Technology, opens in new window
Institute for Engineering Materials - Metals and Alloys
Institute of Electrical Drives and Power Electronics
Institute of Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer, opens in new window (German only)
- Department of Particulate Flow Modelling
Institute of Machine Design and Hydraulic Drives, opens in new window
Institute of Mechatronic Design and Production, opens in new window
Institute of Microelectronics and Microsensors, opens in new window
Institute of Robotics, opens in new window
Institute of Structural Lightweight Design, opens in new window
Institute of Technical Mechanics, opens in new window
JKU HOERBIGER Research Institute for Smart Actuators

Institute of Applied Physics, opens in new window
Institute of Biophysics, opens in new window (German only)
- Department of Applied Experimental Biophysics
- Department of Molecular and Membrane Biophysics
Institute of Experimental Physics, opens in new window
- Department of Surface Physics, opens in new window
- Department of Soft Matter Physics, opens in new window
- Department of Biomolecular & Selforganizing Matter
Institute of Semiconductor and Solid State Physics, opens in new window
- Department of Solid State Physics
- Department of Semiconductor Physics
Institute of Theoretical Physics, opens in new window
- Department of Theoretical Biophysics
- Department of Many Particle Systems
- Department of Quantum Dynamics and Classical Dynamics
Center for Surface and Nanoanalytics (ZONA)

Faculty of Social Science, Economics & Business

Institute of Business Informatics - Communications Engineering, opens in new window
Institute of Business Informatics - Data & Knowledge Engineering, opens an external URL in a new window (German only)
Institute of Business Informatics - Information Engineering, opens in new window
Institute of Business Informatics - Software Engineering, opens in new window (German only)
Institute of Controlling and Consulting, opens in new window
Institute for Entrepreneurship
Institute of Finance, opens in new window (German only)
- Department of Asset Management
- Department of Corporate Finance
Institute of Digital Business, opens an external URL in a new window
- Department of Digital Business Management
- Department of Digital Education
Institute of Entrepreneurship, opens in new window
Institute of Financial Accounting and Auditing, opens in new window (German only)
Institute of Leadership Change Management, opens in new window
Institute of Innovation Management
Institute of International Management, opens in new window
- Department of Cross-Cultural Management
- Department of International Business
Institute of Management Accounting, opens in new window
Institute of Organization Science, opens in new window (German only)
Institute of Production and Logistics Management, opens in new window
Institute of Public and Non-Profit Management, opens in new window
Institute of Retailing, Sales and Marketing, opens in new window (German only)
- Department of Business-to-Business Marketing
- Department of International Marketing
Institute of Strategic Management, opens in new window (German only)
Institute of Tax Management, opens in new window (German only)

Institute of Applied Statistics, opens in new window
- Department of Data Analysis and Econometrics
- Department of Data Acquisition and Data Quality
- Department of Medical Statistics and Biometry
Department of Economics
Rothschild School of Economics and Statistics

Institute of Modern and Contemporary History, opens in new window (German only)
Institute of Philosophy and Scientific Method
Institute of Politics and Social Policy, opens in new window (German only)
Institute of Social and Economic History, opens in new window (German only)
Institute of Sociology, opens in new window (German only)
- Department of Economic and Organizational Sociology
- Department of Empirical Social Research
- Department of Sociology with a focus on Innovation and Digitalization (SID)
- Department for the Theory of Society and Social Analyses

Institute of Psychology, opens in new window
- Department for Work, Organizational and Media Psychology
- Department of Economic Psychology
- Department of Social Psychology, Human Resource Development, and Adult Education
- Department of Health Psychology
Institute of Business and Vocational Education (Geman only)

Center of Health Care Research (German only)
Research Institute for Banking and Finance (German only)
Research Institute for Strategic Managerial Analysis of the Economy
Institute of Cultural Industry and Cultural Research (German only)
Competence Center for Knowledge Management (German only)

Faculty of Law

Institute of Roman Law
- Department of Civil Propaedeutics
Institute of Civil Law
- Department of General Civil Law Dogmatics
- Department of European Law and Insurance Law
- Department of International and Uniform Private Law
- Department of Base-Knowledge Research
- Department of Private Law Development and Legal Protection
- Department of Environmental Private Law
- Department of Business Private Law
Multi-Media Law Studies in Linz (German only)
- Department of Multi-Media Civil Law

Institute of Administrative Law and Administrative Education, opens in new window (German only)
- 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, opens in new window (German only)
- 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, opens in new window (German only)
Institute of University Law, opens in new window (German only)

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

Environmental Law Institute (German only)
- Department of Environmental Base Knowledge Research
- Department of Environmental Technology and Resource Management Law
Institute for Legal Gender Studies, opens in new window (German only)
Institute of Canon and Religious Law and European Legal History, opens in new window (German only)
Institute of European and Austrian Civil Procedural Law, opens in new window (German only)
Institute of Penology, opens in new window (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

Clinical Institute of Pathology and Molecular Pathology, opens an external URL in a new window

Institute for General Medicine
Institute for Anatomy and Cell Biology (German only)
- Department of Virtual Morphology
Institute of Pharmacology
Institute of Physiology and Pathophysiology
- Department of Physiology
- Department of Pathophysiology
Institute for Tumor Biology

Clinical Research Institute for Developmental Medicine

Business School

Linz Institute of Technology

LIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
LIT Cyber-Physical Systems Lab
LIT Sustainable Transformation Management Lab
LIT Future Energy Lab (German only)
LIT Law Lab
LIT Secure and Correct Systems Lab
LIT Medical Engineering Lab
LIT Robopsychology Lab
LIT Secure and Correct Systems Lab
LIT Soft Materials Lab

Linz Institute for Transformative Change (LIFT C)

Linz School of Education

School of Social Sciences and Humanities (SSSH)

Institute for Comprehensive Analysis of the Economy

Interdisciplinary Institutes and Centers

Center for Business Languages and Intercultural Communication, opens in new window (German only)
Center for Criminology, opens in new window (German only)

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Institutes.

Faculty of Engineering & Natural Sciences

Chemistry and Polymer Engineering Technologies

Computer Science

Mathematics

Mechatronics

Physics

Faculty of Social Science, Economics & Business

Business and Business Informatics

Economics and Applied Statistics

Social Sciences and Humanities

Education and Psychology

Externally Funded Institutes

Faculty of Law

Civil Law

Public Law

Business Law

Interdisciplinary Law Studies

Faculty of Medicine

University Departments

Clinical Institutes

Institutes

Clinical Research Institutes

Business School

Divisions