Jožef Stefan Institute

The Jožef Stefan Institute (IJS) (Slovene: Institut "Jožef Stefan") is the largest research institute in Slovenia. The main research areas are physics, chemistry, molecular biology, biotechnology, information technologies, reactor physics, energy and environment. At the beginning of the 2013 the institute had 962 employees, 404 of them were Ph.D scientists.

Jožef Stefan Institute
Institut "Jožef Stefan"
TypeResearch institute
Established1949 (1949)
404
Location
Ljubljana
,
Slovenia
Websitewww.ijs.si

The mission of the Jožef Stefan Institute is the accumulation and dissemination of knowledge at the frontiers of natural science and technology to the benefit of society at large through the pursuit of education, learning, research, and development of high technology at the highest international levels of excellence.

History

The institute was founded by the State Security Administration (Yugoslavia) in 1949 for atomic weapons research. Initially, the Vinča Nuclear Institute in Belgrade was established in 1948, followed by Ruđer Bošković Institute in Zagreb in 1950 and the Jožef Stefan Institute as an Institute for Physics in the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. It is named after the distinguished 19th-century physicist Josef Stefan (Slovene: Jožef Stefan), best known for his work on the Stefan–Boltzmann law of black-body radiation.

IJS is today involved in a wide variety of fields of scientific and economic interest. After close to 60 years of scientific achievement, the institute has become part of the image of Slovenia.

Over the last 60 years it has created a number of important institutions, such as the University of Nova Gorica, the Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School[1] and the Ljubljana Technology park.[2]

Departments

Campuses

The institute has facilities in two locations. The main facilities and the headquarters are on Jamova 39 in Ljubljana, the other location is the Institute's Reactor Center Podgorica located in Dol near Ljubljana.

Selection of online services from the institute

References
  1. "The 2013/2014 CALL FOR ENROLMENT to postgraduate study programmes". Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School.
  2. "Tehnološki Park Ljubljana".

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