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Awards

Awards, honors, and distinctions are an important metric for measuring research excellence. The most prestigious grants for basic science on the European level are awarded by the European Research Council (ERC). Set up in 2007 by the European Union, the ERC is the first pan-European funding organization for frontier research. It aims to stimulate scientific excellence in Europe by encouraging competition for funding between the very best, creative researchers of any nationality and age. With almost 48%, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) has by far the highest success rate of ERC Grants in Europe of institutes with more than 30 grants.

Selected awards and distinctions for faculty members of ISTA:

Erwin Schrödinger Prize: Leonid Sazanov

ERC Starting Grant: Bingqing Cheng, Hryhoriy Polshyn, Florian Praetorius

ERC Consolidator Grant: Johannes Fink, Onur Hosten, Max Jösch, Jérémie Palacci, Xiaoqi Feng

ERC Synergy Grant: Gašper Tkačik

Erwin Schrödinger Prize: Robert Seiringer

Lower Austrian Science Award: Stefan Freunberger, Leonid Sazanov, Maksym Serbyn

Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art: Monika Henzinger

Keilin Memorial Medal: Leonid Sazanov

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Prize: Anđela Šarić

EMBO Young Investigators: Florian Schur

Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina: Ryuichi Shigemoto

Member of the Young Academy (Austria): Jiří Friml, Edouard Hannezo

Member of the Academia Europaea: Tim Browning

ERC Advanced Grant: Nick Barton

ERC Starting Grant: Matthew Kwan, Kimberly Modic, Florian Schur

ERC Synergy Grant: Michael Sixt

ERC Consolidator Grant: Gaia Novarino, Chris Wojtan, Anna Kicheva

Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, first class: Tom Henzinger

Erwin Schrödinger Prize: László Erdős

ERC Advanced Grant: László Erdős, Leonid Sazanov, Thomas Henzinger, Monika Henzinger

FENS-Kavli Scholar: Lora Sweeney

Member of the Young Academy (Austria): Scott Waitukaitis

Information Theory Society Paper Award: Marco Mondelli

Member of the Academia Europaea: Mario de Bono, Vadim Kaloshin, Robert Seiringer

Fellow of the American Mathematical Society: László Erdős

Wittgenstein Award: Monika Henzinger

Peter Seeburg Prize: Peter Jonas

Volker Heine Young Investigator Award: Bingqing Cheng

Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Prize: Tim Browning

ERC Consolidator Grant: Martin Loose

ERC Starting Grant: Lora Sweeney

ERC Proof of Concept Grant: Stefan Freunberger

EMBO Young Investigators: Anđela Šarić

Ignaz L. Lieben Award (ÖAW): Gašper Tkačik

Member of the Academia Europaea: Tamas Hausel

ERC Starting Grant: Julian Fischer, Scott Waitukaitis

Förderungspreis of the Austrian Mathematical Society: Julian Fischer

Member of the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS): Thomas Henzinger

Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences: Thomas Henzinger

ERC Advanced Grant: Vadim Kaloshin

Member of the Young Academy (Austria): Mikhail Lemeshko

EMBO Young Investigators: Edouard Hannezo, Martin Loose

Fellow of Royal Society: Leonid Sazanov

EMBO Membership: Peter Jonas

European Association for Theoretical Computer Science Award: Thomas Henzinger

ERC Starting Grant: Edouard Hannezo, Maksym Serbyn

Ludwig Boltzmann Award: Maksym Serbyn

Carus Medal: Carl-Philipp Heisenberg

Academy Award for Technical Achievement (“Technical Oscar”): Bernd Bickel

Member of the Academia Europaea: Jozsef Csicsvari

Fellow of the American Mathematical Society: Robert Seiringer

Neuron Award for Lifetime Contribution to Science: Jiří Friml

ERC Consolidator Grant: Krishnendu Chatterjee

ERC Advanced Grant: Herbert Edelsbrunner

ERC Starting Grant: Dan Alistarh, Mikhail Lemeshko, Anđela Šarić

Wittgenstein Award: Herbert Edelsbrunner

Erwin Schrödinger Prize: Peter Jonas

HFSP Grant: Gašper Tkačik

Fritz Kohlrausch Award: Johannes Fink

Academy Award for Technical Achievement: Bernd Bickel

Highly Cited Scientist: Jiří Friml , László Erdős

EMBO Membership: Leonid Sazanov

ERC Proof of Concept Grant: Bernd Bickel

ERC Advanced Grant: Carl-Philipp Heisenberg, Jiři Friml, Peter Jonas

ERC Consolidator Grant: Sylvia Cremer, Francesca Pellicciotti, Daniel Zilberman

ERC Starting Grant: Johannes Fink, Maximilian Jösch

Leonard Eisenbud Prize: László Erdős

Ludwig Boltzmann Award: Mikhail Lemeshko

ACM SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award: Bernd Bickel

Highly Cited Scientist: Jiří Friml , László Erdős

EMBO Membership: Eva Benkova

Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences: Robert Seiringer

Member of the Young Academy (Austria): Beatriz Vicoso

Member of the Academia Europaea: Ryuichi Shigemoto

Lower Austrian Science Award: Carl-Philipp Heisenberg

Elected Member of the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives (DABI): Peter Jonas

ERC Advanced Grant: Ryuichi Shigemoto, Robert Seiringer

ERC Consolidator Grant: Michael Sixt, Simon Hippenmeyer

ERC Starting Grant: Bernd Bickel, Jan Maas, Gaia Novarino, Beatriz Vicoso, Sandra Siegert

ERC Proof of Concept Grant: Björn Hof

SFARI Award: Gaia Novarino

Charles Albert Shull Award: Jiří Friml

Wittgenstein Award: Peter Jonas

HFSP Grant: Martin Loose

ACM SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award: Chris Wojtan

Highly Cited Scientist: Jiří Friml

EMBO Membership: Carl-Philipp Heisenberg

Member of Hungarian Academy of Sciences: László Erdős

FENS-Kavli Scholar: Gaia Novarino

ERC Consolidator Grant: Jonathan P. Bollback*, Krzysztof Pietrzak

ERC Starting Grant: Martin Loose, Anna Kicheva

Erwin Schrödinger Prize: Jiří Friml

START Award: Caroline Uhler*

Microsoft Visual Computing Award: Bernd Bickel

Milner Award: Tom Henzinger

Highly Cited Scientist: Jiří Friml

Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences: László Erdős

Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina: Carl-Philipp Heisenberg

Member of the Young Academy (Austria): Georgios Katsaros

Member of the Academia Europaea: Peter Jonas , László Erdős

European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) Fellowship: Tom Henzinger

Elisabeth Lutz Award: Sylvia Cremer

ERC Starting Grant: Chris Wojtan

HFSP Grant: Simon Hippenmeyer

Highly Cited Scientist: Eva Benkova , Jiří Friml

EMBO Membership: Nick Barton

EMBO Membership: Michael Sixt

Full Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW): Herbert Edelsbrunner

Member of the Young Academy (Austria): Jiří Friml

European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) Fellowship: Herbert Edelsbrunner

ERC Advanced Grant: László Erdős, Tamas Hausel

ERC Consolidator Grant: Vladimir Kolmogorov

ERC Starting Grant: Georgios Katsaros

Erwin Schrödinger Prize: Nick Barton

START Award: Georgios Katsaros

HFSP Grant: Tobias Bollenbach*

Microsoft Visual Computing Award: Chris Wojtan

Mendel Medal: Nick Barton

Member of the Young Academy (Austria): Michael Sixt

Member of the Young Academy (Austria): Christoph Lampert

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellowship: Tom Henzinger

ERC Starting Grant: Christoph Lampert , Björn Hof

EMBO Gold Medal: Jiří Friml

Wittgenstein Award: Tom Henzinger

HFSP Grant: Gašper Tkačik

HFSP Grant: Harald Janovjak*

Ignaz L. Lieben Award (ÖAW): Michael Sixt

ERC Advanced Grant: Peter Jonas

ERC Starting Grant: Krishnendu Chatterjee, Jozsef Csicsvari, Michael Sixt, Jiří Friml

Mega Grant by the Russian Government: Herbert Edelsbrunner

START Award: Michael Sixt

HFSP Grant: Calin Guet, Michael Sixt

Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship: Krishnendu Chatterjee

Full Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW): Tom Henzinger

Member of the Young Academy (Austria): Sylvia Cremer

ERC Advanced Grant: Tom Henzinger

ERC Starting Grant: Krzysztof Pietrzak

Körber European Science Award: Jiří Friml

EMBO Membership: Jiri Friml

ERC Advanced Grant: Nick Barton

ERC Starting Grant: Sylvia Cremer

Darwin Wallace Medal: Nick Barton

Highly Cited Scientist: Herbert Edelsbrunner

Member of the Academia Europaea: Herbert Edelsbrunner

Adolf-Fick Award: Peter Jonas

Highly Cited Scientist: Nick Barton

Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina: Herbert Edelsbrunner

Member of the Junge Akademie (Germany): Sylvia Cremer

Internal Senior Fellow of the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies : Peter Jonas

Elected Member of the Academy of Sciences, Heidelberg: Peter Jonas

ERC Starting Grant: Eva Benková

Tsungming Tu Award: Peter Jonas

Highly Cited Scientist: Tom Henzinger

Member of the Academia Europaea: Tom Henzinger

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award: Peter Jonas

Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina: Tom Henzinger

Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina: Peter Jonas

Highly Cited Scientist: Ryuichi Shigemoto

Max Planck Research Award : Peter Jonas

Medinfar European Prize in Physiology : Peter Jonas

Fellow of Royal Society of Edinburgh: Nick Barton

Fellow of Royal Society of London: Nick Barton

Heinz Maier Leibnitz Award : Peter Jonas

* Former faculty members of ISTA



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