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Bachelor’s or master’s students who would like to gain more research experience are invited to apply for our scientific internship and ISTernship Fellowship.

For more information about the ISTernship Fellowship (currently paused), please see this page.

Doing internships during your Bachelor’s and/or Master’s studies is a great way to gain more research experience.

You get the opportunity to find out if you enjoy doing independent research as well as which research field captivates your interest the most.

Prospective employers, whether in academia, industry, or other sectors, highly value internship experience as it shows initiative and wider exposure to different work environments, technical know-how, and research cultures.

ISTA offers a supportive environment for research and professional development. It provides access to state-of-the-art facilities from bioimaging to nanofabrication and scientific computing through centralized Scientific Service Units.

ISTA an open and international culture with a scientific staff from more than 70 nations. ISTA offers career development services for young scientists to prepare them for their next steps and provides numerous social and fringe benefits such as accommodation, cafeteria, sport & leisure, language courses, the free ISTA shuttle bus, and childcare on campus depending on availability.

As an intern at ISTA, you will be guided by your supervisor as you work on your internship project(s). Depending on your background and research interests, as well as the research focus of the group you join, there is a wide scope for differences in the types of projects you can work on.

Interns in life science labs (e.g. biology, neuroscience) or experimental physics and chemistry/materials typically perform experiments, do literature searches, and learn new techniques that help address specific research questions.

In the theoretical sciences, such as mathematics, computer science, data science & scientific computing, and theoretical physics or computational chemistry interns write proofs, read related literature, and sometimes even get the opportunity to co-author papers on their results.

You may also do your internship with our staff scientists. They are fully trained researchers who provide domain-specific skills, expertise, and experience not usually present within research groups.

If you’d like to find out what kind of research is conducted at ISTA, the best way to do so is by exploring the different research areas of our faculty or our staff scientists.

There are two ways in which you can apply to join ISTA: the ISTernship Fellowship and year-round scientific internships.

The ISTernship – ISTA Summer Fellowship is a program with a centralized application and admissions process.

Applicants should not reach out to professors to apply for the ISTernship Fellowship since the selection process is conducted via a centralized call.

The ISTernship program has been paused for the 2026 and 2027 application cycles, and will not be taking place this coming year.

The second way you can join as an intern is through year-round scientific internships, which is where you get in touch directly with the faculty member whom you’re interested in working with and agree with them when the internship start and end dates will be. The duration of these internships can be up to one year. These internships are still available and not impacted by the ISTernship program pause.

The second way you can join as an intern is through year-round scientific internships, which is where you get in touch directly with the faculty member whom you’re interested in working with and agree with them when the internship start and end dates will be. The duration of these internships can be up to one year. These internships are still available and not impacted by the ISTernship program pause.

Please see a comparison of the two paths below:

1. the ISTernship Fellowship, and 2) year-round scientific internships.

— — ISTernship Fellowship

Scholarship-based program (currently paused) — Year-round Scientific Internship

Internship

— How to apply — Centralized call via application system

(no need to contact professors) — Direct contact with professors

— When they take place — Summer (May-September) — Anytime throughout the year

— Duration — From 2 to 3 Months — Between 2 and 12 months

If you have any questions about;

ISTernship Fellowship please contact isternship@ist.ac.at

Year-round Scientific Internship please contact predoc@ista.ac.at

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