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

Chemistry and Polymer Engineering Technologies

Institute of Analytical Chemistry (German only)
- Department of Analytical Chemistry
- Department of General Chemistry
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)

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 for Application-oriented Knowledge Processing
Institute of Computational Perception
Institute of Complex Systems (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
Institute of Symbolic Artificial Intelligence

Mathematics

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

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 for Metallic Construction Materials
Institute of Electrical 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

Institute of Applied Physics
Institute of Biophysics
- Department of Applied Experimental Biophysics
- Department of Molecular and Membrane Biophysics
Institute of Experimental Physics
- Department of Surface Physics
- Department of Soft Matter Physics
Institute of Semiconductor and Solid State Physics
- Department of Solid State Physics
- Department of Semiconductor Physics
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 Business Informatics - Communications Engineering
Institute of Business Informatics - Data & Knowledge Engineering (German only)
Institute of Business Informatics - Information Engineering
Institute of Business Informatics - Software Engineering (German only)
Institute of Controlling and Consulting (German only)
Institute of 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 Leadership 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 Corporate and Regional Environmental Management (German only)
Institute of Organization Science (German only)
Institute of Production 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 Market
Institute of Strategic Management (German only)
Institute of Tax Management (German only)

Economics and Applied Statistics

Institute of Applied Statistics
- Department of Data Analysis and Econometrics
- Department of Data Acquisition and Data Quality
- Department of Medical Statistics and Biometry
Department of Economics

Social Sciences and Humanities

Institute of Modern and Contemporary History (German only)
Institute of Philosophy and Scientific Method
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 Sociology with a focus on Innovation and Digitalization (SID)
- 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 Economic Psychology
- Department of Social Psychology, Human Resource Development, and Adult Education
Institute of Business and Vocational Education (Geman only)

Externally Funded Institutes

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

Civil 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
- Department of Multi-Media Civil Law

Public Law

Institute of Administrative Law and Administrative Education (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 (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 (German only)
Institute of University Law (German only)

Business Law

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

Interdisciplinary Law Studies

Environmental Law Institute (German only)
- Department of Environmental Base Knowledge Research
- Department of General Environmental Law Dogmatics and Environmental Technology Law
Institute for Legal Gender Studies (German only)
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

Departments

Institutes

Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology (German only)
Institute of Pharmacology
Institute of Physiology and Pathophysiology

Clinical Institutes

Clinical Institute of Pathology and Molecular Pathology

Clinical Research Institutes

Clinical Research Institute for Developmental Medicine

Business School

Divisions

Linz Institute of Technology

Research Labs

Linz School of Education

Departments

Interdisciplinary Institutes and Centers

Institutes

Centers

Centre for Business Language and Intercultural Communication (German only)
Centre for Criminology (German only)

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