International School for Advanced Studies

Overview

International School for Advanced Studies

International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA or Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati) is a public graduate research institute in Trieste, Italy. It was founded in 1978 and is known for its focus on high-level scientific research. It is ranked 32nd amongst universities in Italy and 1,294th in the world.

International School for Advanced Studies Statistics

SISSA offers its research-based graduate degrees through three major research areas—mathematics, neuroscience, and physics—which are divided into 13 research groups. Some of these research groups are Astrophysics and Cosmology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Mathematical Analysis, and Statistical Physics.

The university offers 11 Ph.D. courses, two professional masters, and four master’s courses. The top courses offered are physics, neuroscience, and mathematics.

International School for Advanced Studies has about 400 students (300 Ph.D. students and 100 postdoctoral students). It has 80 professors, which gives it a professor-to-student ratio of 1:5. ISSA also has 119 technical administrative staff.

The SISSA Library has a collection of 22,000 volumes, which include books, ebooks, and printed journals. It has an open-air theatre for holding science-focused shows and conferences and a supercomputing center built in partnership with the International Center for Theoretical Physics.

Other International School for Advanced Studies key statistics include collaborations with Italian and European universities to run its master's programs as well as special relationships with the Elettra Synchrotron Light Laboratory, the International Center for Theoretical Physics, and the International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology. It is also in a partnership with the Italian National Institutes of Nuclear Physics.

International School for Advanced Studies Research

SISSA is a research institute that commands respect in the scientific community with its research output published in leading journals. It receives funding from both public and private sectors, such as the European Research Council, the Italian Ministry of Education and Research, and several international agencies.

The top three research fields of International School for Advanced Studies are physics, astrophysics, and mathematics. Its researchers have their publications in high-impact journals like Astronomy and Astrophysics, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, and the Journal of High Energy Physics. They have been invited to attend/present at prestigious conferences, such as the Conference on Decision and Control, Neural Information Processing System, and the International Conference on Robotics and Automation.

The university's most cited publication is Giannozzi et al.'s (2009) "QUANTUM ESPRESSO: A modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials," published in the Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter. It has been cited 18,121 times. The second most cited publication is Ade et al.'s (2016) "Planck 2015 results - XIII. Cosmological parameters," published in Astronomy and Astrophysics with a citation count of 17,560. The third most cited paper is another Ade et al. work "Planck 2013 results. XVI. Cosmological parameters." This was published in Astronomy and Astrophysics in 2014 and has received 16,422 citations.

The university also has the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Natural Sciences and Humanities, which seeks to make connections between the humanities and science.

Other International School for Advanced Studies research statistics includes its 14 active patents.