Austrian Academy of Sciences - Space Research Institute

The Space Research Institute (IWF) in Graz/Styria has focused on the physics of (exo-)planets and space plasmas for more than 40 years.

With about 100 staff members from 20 nations it is one of the largest institutes of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW). IWF develops and builds space-qualified instruments and analyses and interprets the data returned by them.