Organisation and structure

For over 650 years, the University of Vienna has represented education, research and innovation. With 20 faculties and centres plus a range of degree programmes covering over 180 subject areas, we offer more than just academic diversity. Our staff works day in, day out to ensure that academics and students enjoy the best possible conditions for their work. Our teachers share their extensive knowledge at the highest level and give students the skills to think critically for themselves. Our researchers work with passion and dedication to find solutions for tomorrow’s world.

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University management

The highest bodies of the University of Vienna are the Rectorate, the University Board and the Senate. The Rectorate has established a Scientific Advisory Board to advise the University on its development. 
 

Faculties, centres and subunits

Subunits:

  • Dean's office of the Faculty of Catholic Theology
  • Research Centre Religion and Transformation
  • Department of Biblical Studies
  • Department of Historical Theology
  • Department of Intercultural Philosophy of Religion
  • Department of Islamic-Theological Studies
  • Department of Canon Law and Law on Religion
  • Department of Practical Theology
  • Department of Religious Studies
  • Department of Systematic Theology and Ethics
  • StudiesServiceCenter Catholic Theology

Further information can be found in the Staff/Unit Directory u:find

 

Subunits:

  • Dean's office of the Faculty of Protestant Theology
  • Department of Old Testament Studies and Biblical Archaeology
  • Department of History of Christianity and Protestantism in Austria
  • Department of New Testament Studies
  • Department of Practical Theology and Psychology of Religion
  • Department of Religious Education
  • Department of Systematic Theology and the Study of Religions
  • StudiesServiceCenter Protestant Theology

Further information can be found in the Staff/Unit Directory u:find

 

Subunits:

  • Dean's office of the Faculty of Law
  • Research Institute for Legal Policy/Development
  • Department of Labour Law and Law of Social Security
  • Department of European, International and Comparative Law
  • Department of Tax Law
  • Department of Innovation and Digitalisation in Law
  • Department of Legal and Constitutional History
  • Department of Legal Philosophy
  • Department of Roman Law and Antique Legal History
  • Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law
  • Department of Criminal Law and Criminology
  • Department of Commercial and Business Law
  • Department of Civil Law
  • Department of Civil Procedure
  • StudiesServiceCenter Law

Further information can be found in the Staff/Unit Directory u:find

 

Subunits:

  • Dean's office of the Faculty of Business, Economics and Statistics
  • Division of Business Languages
  • Faculty IT Support
  • Department of Business Decisions and Analytics
  • Department of Finance
  • Department of Marketing and International Business
  • Department of Accounting, Innovation and Strategy
  • Department of Business Law
  • Department of Statistics and Operations Research
  • Department of Economics
  • Department of Economic Sociology
  • StudiesServiceCenter Business, Economics and Statistics
  • Vienna Center for Experimental Economics

Further information can be found in the Staff/Unit Directory u:find

 

Subunits:

  • Dean's office of the Faculty of Computer Science
  • Research Group Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
  • Research Group Communication Technologies
  • Research Group Cooperative Systems
  • Research Group Data Mining and Machine Learning
  • Research Group Education, Didactics and Entertainment Computing
  • Research Group Knowledge Engineering
  • Research Group Multimedia Information Systems
  • Research Group Neuroinformatics
  • Research Group Scientific Computing
  • Research Group Security and Privacy
  • Research Group Software Architecture
  • Research Group Theory and Applications of Algorithms
  • Research Group Visualization and Data Analysis
  • Research Group Workflow Systems and Technology
  • StudiesServiceCenter Computer Science

Further information can be found in the Staff/Unit Directory u:find

 

Subunits:

  • Dean's office of the Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies
  • Faculty centre for transdisciplinary historical-cultural studies
  • StudiesServiceCenter Historical and Cultural Studies
  • Department of Ancient History, Papyrology and Epigraphy
  • Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies
  • Department of European Ethnology
  • Department of History
  • Department of Jewish Studies
  • Department of Classical Archaeology
  • Department of Art History
  • Department of Numismatics and Monetary History
  • Department of East European History
  • Department of Prehistoric and Historical Archaeology
  • Department of Economic and Social History
  • Department of Contemporary History
  • Department of Egyptology
  • Institute of Austrian Historical Research
  • Vienna Institute for Archaeological Science

Further information can be found in the Staff/Unit Directory u:find

 

Subunits:

  • Core Facility MediaLab of the Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies
  • Dean's office of the Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies
  • Department of African Studies
  • Department of English and American Studies
  • Department of European and Comparative Literature and Language Studies
  • Department of German Studies
  • Department of Classical Philology, Medieval and Neolatin Studies
  • Department of Musicology (Historical Musicology, Ethnomusicology and Systematic Musicology)
  • Department of Near Eastern Studies
  • Department of East Asian Studies
  • Department of Romance Studies
  • Department of Slavonic Studies
  • Department of Linguistics
  • Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies
  • Department of Theatre, Film and Media Studies
  • StudiesServiceCenter Philological and Cultural Studies

Further information can be found in the Staff/Unit Directory u:find

 

Subunits:

  • Dean's office of the Faculty of Philosophy and Education
  • Institute Vienna Circle
  • Department of Education
  • Department of Philosophy
  • StudiesServiceCenter Philosophy and Education

Further information can be found in the Staff/Unit Directory u:find

 

Subunits:

  • Dean's office of the Faculty of Psychology
  • Outpatient Unit for Research, Teaching and Practice
  • IT Service Psychology
  • Department of Occupational, Economic and Social Psychology
  • Department of Clinical and Health Psychology
  • Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology
  • StudiesServiceCenter Psychology

Further information can be found in the Staff/Unit Directory u:find

 

Subunits:

  • Dean's office of the Faculty of Social Sciences
  • Department of Demography
  • Department of Development Studies
  • Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology
  • Department of Nursing Science
  • Department of Political Science
  • Department of Communication
  • Department of Sociology
  • Department of Government
  • Department of Science and Technology Studies
  • Project: Family Studies in Austria
  • StudiesServiceCenter Social Sciences

Further information can be found in the Staff/Unit Directory u:find

 

Subunits:

  • Core Operations Mathematics
  • Dean's office of the Faculty of Mathematics
  • Department of Mathematics
  • StudiesServiceCenter Mathematics

Further information can be found in the Staff/Unit Directory u:find

 

Subunits:

  • Aerosol Physics and Environmental Physics
  • Computational Materials Physics
  • Computational and Soft Matter Physics
  • Dean's office of the Faculty of Physics
  • Dynamics of Condensed Systems
  • Electronic Properties of Materials
  • Basic Experimental Physics Training and University Didactics
  • Faculty Center for Nano Structure Research
  • Gravitational Physics
  • Isotope Physics
  • Mathematical Physics
  • Nanomagnetism and Magnonics
  • Physics of Functional Materials
  • Physics of Nanostructured Materials
  • Quantum Optics, Quantum Nanophysics and Quantum Information
  • StudiesServiceCenter Physics
  • Particle Physics
  • Workshop and Technical Services

Further information can be found in the Staff/Unit Directory u:find

 

Subunits:

  • Core Facility Multimodal Imaging
  • Core Facility Crystal Structure Analysis
  • Dean's office of the Faculty of Chemistry
  • Department of Analytical Chemistry
  • Department of Inorganic Chemistry
  • Department of Biological Chemistry
  • Department of Biophysical Chemistry
  • Department of Computational Biological Chemistry
  • Department of Didactics of Chemistry
  • Department of Functional Materials and Catalysis
  • Department of Food Chemistry and Toxicology
  • Department of Materials Chemistry
  • Department of Organic Chemistry
  • Department of Physical Chemistry
  • Department of Physiological Chemistry
  • Department of Theoretical Chemistry
  • Joint Applied Medicinal Radiochemistry Facility
  • Joint Metabolome Facility
  • Mass Spectrometry Centre
  • Microanalysis Services
  • NMR Centre
  • StudiesServiceCenter Chemistry
  • Technical Services

Further information can be found in the Staff/Unit Directory u:find

 

Subunits:

  • Dean's office of the Faculty of Earth Sciences, Geography and Astronomy
  • Department of Lithospheric Research
  • Department of Astrophysics
  • Department of Geography and Regional Research
  • Department of Geology
  • Department of Meteorology and Geophysics
  • Department of Mineralogy and Crystallography
  • Department of Palaeontology
  • StudiesServiceCenter Earth Sciences, Geography and Astronomy

Further information can be found in the Staff/Unit Directory u:find

 

Subunits:

  • Core Facility Animal Care UBB
  • Core Facility Botanical Garden
  • Core Facility KLF for Behavior and Cognition
  • Core Facility Shared Services UBB
  • Core Facility of Micro-Computed Tomography
  • Dean's office of the Faculty of Life Sciences
  • Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research
  • Department of Nutritional Sciences
  • Department of Evolutionary Biology
  • Department of Evolutionary Anthropology
  • Functional and Evolutionary Ecology
  • Department of Neuroscience and Developmental Biology
  • Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
  • Department of Behavioral and Cognitive Biology
  • StudiesServiceCenter Life Sciences

Further information can be found in the Staff/Unit Directory u:find

 

Subunits:

  • Office of the Centre for Translation Studies
  • Department for Translation Studies
  • StudiesServiceCenter Translation Studies

Further information can be found in the Staff/Unit Directory u:find

 

Subunits:

  • Office of the Centre for Sport Science and University Sports
  • Department of Sport and Human Movement Science
  • StudiesServiceCenter Sport Science
  • University Sport Institute

Further information can be found in the Staff/Unit Directory u:find

 

Subunits:

  • Office of the Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science
  • Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science
  • Department of Environmental Geosciences
  • Large-Instrument Facility for Environmental and Isotope Mass Spectrometry

Further information can be found in the Staff/Unit Directory u:find

 

Subunits:

  • Office of the Centre for Teacher Education
  • Department for Teacher Education
  • Center for Science Education Research (AECCs)
  • StudiesServiceCenter Teacher Education

Further information can be found in the Staff/Unit Directory u:find

 

Subunits:

  • Office of the Max Perutz Labs
  • Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
  • Department of Chromosome Biology
  • Department of Microbiology, Immunobiology and Genetics
  • Department of Structural and Computational Biology

Further information can be found in the Staff/Unit Directory u:find

 

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Networks, platforms and further research facilities

Research networks build critical mass in interdisciplinary research areas and particularly to strengthen and connect the strategic priorities of the University of Vienna. Research clusters are established by the Rectorate for a limited time and are regularly evaluated. 

The following research networks are part of the University of Vienna:

Interinstitutional research networks promote cooperation with other universities and research institutions. The funding of interinstitutional networks should ideally be equally shared between the participating institutions. Interinstitutional research networks are established by the Rectorate in collaboration with the other participating partner organizations for a limited time and are regularly jointly evaluated.

The University of Vienna and the Medical University of Vienna collaborate in numerous projects. The University of Vienna runs joint cluster projects and core facilities to strengthen and deepen cooperation between the two universities, develop synergies in strategic research areas and lay them down at the institutional level.

The Max Perutz Labs are a research and education center operated jointly by the University of Vienna and the Medical University of Vienna. They are located at the Vienna Biocenter, one of the largest life sciences clusters in Austria. The MPL employ around 500 people from 40 countries who conduct basic research in the field of molecular biology in about 60 research groups.

In addition, the University announced three joint professorships in the areas of computational medicine, molecular biology and public health nutrition at the end of 2018. In the area of teaching, the University has established an interdisciplinary master’s programme in Cognitive Science; Moreover, the two universities plan to strengthen their cooperation within the Vienna Cognitive Science Hub, an interdisciplinary research network at the University of Vienna.

Under the auspices of the University of Veterinary Medicine, the University of Vienna and the Medical University of Vienna cooperate in research projects at the "Messerli Centre for Human-Animal Interaction" investigating the interaction between humans and animals, as well as ethics and the theoretical principles of animal cognition and behaviour.

In 2004, the University of Vienna established the Department for Ethics and Law in Medicine. This interdisciplinary research platform is operated jointly by the Faculty of Catholic Theology, the Faculty of Protestant Theology and the Faculty of Law, in cooperation with the Medical University of Vienna on the basis of a cooperation agreement.  

Inter-University Cluster Projects

Joint Core Facilities

Vienna Life Science Instruments

  • The joint use of existing large research equipment is the main objective of the Vienna Life-Science Instruments (VLSI) initiative, in which the Austrian Academy of Sciences is involved as well.

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Organisation of studies and teaching

In order to ensure the best possible support for students when it comes to legal framework of their studies, the University of Vienna has established the Office of Studienpräses.

Shareholdings of the University of Vienna

  • Innovationszentrum Universität Wien GmbH
    (Share of the University of Vienna: 100%)
    • Kinderbüro Universität Wien GmbH
      (Share of the Innovationszentrum Universität Wien GmbH: 100%)
    • INiTS Universitäres Gründerservice Wien GmbH
      (Share of the Innovationszentrum Universität Wien GmbH: 37%)
      • INiTSiator GmbH
        (Share of the INiTS Universitäres Gründerservice Wien GmbH: 100%)
    • UNIPORT Karriereservice Universität Wien GmbH
      (Share of the Innovationszentrum Universität Wien GmbH: 25,01%)
  • UNIPORT Karriereservice Universität Wien GmbH
    (Share of the University of Vienna: 74,99%)
  • ACOmarket GmbH
    (Share of the University of Vienna: 11,11%)
  • Advanced Computing Austria ACA GmbH
    (Share of the University of Vienna: 35%)

  • Max Perutz Lab Support GmbH
    (Share of the University of Vienna: 60%)
    • Vienna Biocenter Core Facilities GmbH
      (Share of the Max Perutz Labs Support GmbH: 17%)
  • Vienna Biocenter Core Facilities GmbH
    (Share of the University of Vienna: 15%)
  • WasserCluster Lunz – Biologische Station GmbH
    (Share of the University of Vienna: 33,33%)
  • ABC Research GmbH
    (Share of the University of Vienna: 8%)

  • Rossauer Lände 3 Immobilienprojektentwicklung GmbH
    (Share of the University of Vienna: 50%)
  • Kolingasse 14 -16 Liegenschaftsverwaltung GmbH
    (Share of the University of Vienna: 45%)

  • VASP Software GmbH
    (Share of the University of Vienna: 30%)

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